Emmanuelle Ducros 8:54 a.m., February 12, 2024
Every morning after the 8:30 a.m. news, Emmanuelle Ducros reveals to listeners her “Journey into absurdity”, from Monday to Thursday.
At the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon on Saturday, two activists from a collective called Riposte Alimentaire threw soup at a painting by Claude Monet, Spring.
Like on the Mona Lisa two weeks ago. But this time, the work is examined by restorers. It may have been damaged. An investigation is opened for damage to cultural property.
What do we know about this collective, Riposte Alimentaire?
Food Riposte is the continuation of another collective that has been talked about in recent years, Latest renovation. His favorite thing was the thermal insulation of buildings which was not going fast enough. The activists stuck to the road to protest. It didn't help the schmillblick.
So, the collective mutated, it became Food Response, with a new angle of attack. He wants "a profound and collective transformation which aims to achieve an ecological and social victory through the establishment of Sustainable Food Social Security", Derisory mode of action: throwing soup on works of art . The bottom line has not changed: anti-capitalism, media greed, pseudo civil disobedience and total opacity
Opacity? That's to say ?
Riposte Alimentaire is not an association with statutes, a president, someone who would be responsible for the barnum. It's informal. And besides, the soup throwers are not defined as members, but as “citizens in civil resistance”. Officially, Food Response is nobody.
But there are actions, a website and well-established communication. Who finances all this?
Funny soup. Food response, officially, is nobody. But there is still someone to do the quest on the website, via a financing platform based in Australia.
Food Response promises donors a doubling of their contribution from a mysterious benefactor, but also a tax rebate in France. You heard correctly. This collective without legal existence, without accounting, benefits from tax exemption on donations up to 66%, like the Restaus du coeur.
This means that there is a smokescreen, an association that is established on the street, which collects donations and pays them in secret. Supporters of Food Response do not know to whom they are donating, nor who manages the money, nor what happens to it. they don't know who they are campaigning with and who is pulling the strings. This should raise red flags for anyone with even the slightest bit of critical thinking.
And against all odds, it happens.
Until last week, the collective was domiciled in premises belonging to Paris town hall. He is always welcomed for his conferences in the public buildings of the Climate Academy. Material support and public money to cook an opaque story and carry out illegal actions. It's time for the joke to stop