Climate: seven activists tried for breaking into the tarmac at Roissy airport – franceinfo

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On October 3, 2020, a hundred climate activists entered the runways at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport to protest against an extension project.

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From the tracks of Roissy to the court of Bobigny. Seven climate activists are on trial on Thursday, October 7, for entering the tarmac at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport in October 2020. At the call of the Alternatiba and ANV COP21 movements, they demonstrated against the project to extend the site, which has since been abandoned, and against an aeronautical sector that emits a lot of greenhouse gases, the engines of global warming.

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“We had entered the tarmac, we were seated in front of a stationary plane, we had unfurled banners and chained up speeches”, remembers Audrey Boehly, spokesperson for the No collective at terminal 4. She is now being sued, along with six other people, for having “trouble” the operation of the airport. An action that could be worth him up to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 18,000 euros, the offense of trespassing on an airport, recently voted, not in force at the time.

Before the judges, the science journalist intends to plead “the state of necessity and freedom of expression”. She believes that the infrastructure they were struggling against “was going to lead to a sharp increase in greenhouse gas emissions when we must reduce them, as the IPCC recalled in its last report”.

“The urgency of global warming forces us to warn. We play a whistleblower role, disobeying the law, but non-violently and without major damage, to alert against a major danger.”

Audrey Boehly, spokesperson for the No collective at terminal 4

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In February 2021, the government announced, through the voice of the Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, the abandonment of the Roissy T4 terminal project, judged “obsolete and incompatible with the Climate and Resilience law”. But, regret the signatories of a support forum for the seven militants tried, he continues to actively support, without ecological or social compensation, the aviation sector.