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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

France to shut down climate protest group citing public safety risks

A man throws a red pole through a plastic sheet wall and another hangs from a structural beam during a protest near Nantes.
A man throws a red pole through a plastic sheet wall and another hangs from a structural beam during a protest near Nantes. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The French government is to shut down a climate protest group over a series of recent demonstrations citing risks to public safety, as the environmental activists called the decision “political and particularly worrying”.

Les Soulèvements de la Terre (Earth Uprising) is an umbrella group of several different environmental activist associations across France. It is seen as leading a new form of more radical climate action in Europe with high-profile direct action often aimed at big business interests, state projects and large-scale farming.

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