ALTHOUGH NO HEADS WERE TAKEN, FRANCE'S SOCIALIST PRESIDENT PLACED PROMINENT CLIMATE ACTIVISTS UNDER HOUSE ARREST AFTER GENDARMES ARRESTED 208 PROTESTORS TRYING TO SIEZE LA PLACE VENDOME
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Juliette Rousseau, the head of Coalition Climat 21, an umbrella group for environmental activists, said the authorities had searched homes and seized computers and other equipment belonging to activists who have no connection to terrorism.
“There’s clearly an environment to keep activists out,” she said. “The state of emergency is clearly targeting activist movements. This is not justified. These people under house arrest, they don’t have any kind of criminal record.”
She added: “The impression we have is that there is this conference taking place in a sealed-up space, and meanwhile people in civil society are being asphyxiated.”
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