Tour de France fans took matters into their own hands on Saturday as they removed a gang of eco-protesters threatening to disrupt the bicycle race by sitting in the middle of the road to block riders. MailOnline has more.
Eight climate activists from French campaign group Dernière Rénovation (Last Renovation) sporting T-shirts emblazoned with the message “we have 978 days left” to tackle environmental decline tried to stop the race during the 20th stage between Lacapelle-Marival and Rocamadouron on Saturday.
But their attempts to wreak havoc at the stage were thwarted by spectators, who stormed onto the road and dragged them out of the path of the oncoming bikes even before the police arrived on the scene to make arrests.
Striking pictures have emerged of the enraged fans bowling into the road to pull, push and harry the protesters off the tarmac to prevent them from ruining the race.
Started earlier this year, Dernière Rénovation (DR) is a French faction of the international climate activism conglomerate “A22”, which includes the likes of Just Stop Oil – a U.K.-based group which attempted to disrupt the British Formula 1 Grand Prix at Silverstone on July 3rd.
DR employ similar tactics to those used by the likes of Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain, such as gluing themselves to the road to create congestion in large cities or putting themselves in harm’s way to disrupt major events.
The French faction had already hit the cycling competition three times prior to yesterday’s demonstration, and have promised more action – though the Tour De France draws to a close today on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
A statement released by the group today read: “Citizens supporting DR tried to interrupt the Tour de France time trial, during the 20th stage between Lacapelle-Marival and Rocamadour. Today’s action is the fourth in a series of disruptive actions that will continue until there is a credible and effective government commitment to isolate buildings… If nothing is done, the climate crisis will devastate entire swaths of our planet, as its disastrous consequences in our country have already witnessed this summer, and will condemn billions of people to death.”
Worth reading in full.
Meanwhile, people are asking why the British police can’t respond more like the Italians when eco-protestors target famous artworks. While the protestors who glued their hands to John Constable’s The Hay Wain in the National Gallery in London earlier this month were left alone until police arrested them over an hour later, at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence this week a security guard ripped two protestors’ hands from Botticelli’s Primavera where they had been superglued within minutes and dragged them away.
Good to see some spirited pushback against the disruptive eco-loons.
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He’s also making up lies about Tucker Carlson. These far-left media types are such extreme post-modernists that they make up any rubbish they like and consider it ‘their truth!!’
They are getting desperate. This tosser says we’re worried about Indians taking over, some other tosser says Sunak is not a proper Indian.
Rishi Sunak is more traditionally and respectably British than the Wayne and Waynetta Slob that live just down my street!
I suspect some Muslims may be against Rishi Sunak (and maybe more by the next election).
Like lockdown fanatics with Sweden, the race hustlers are terrified of counterexamples so they misrepresent them.
In truth there are a few people who are unhappy about Indians etc taking over – I know, I’ve seen the posts – but I suspect most of them would not be posting that stuff if Sunak was an actual conservative and not a WF stooge.
If Sunak was an English guy from Yorkshire, some people would complain that the crazy Northerners are taking over and if he was from Wales, they’d write the same about Welsh sheep-shaggers. While neither of both would be very useful for Noah’s canned postcolonial diatribe, they’re all qualitatively identical (putting someone down because he belongs to the wrong group of people). But then, the guy doesn’t really want to say something, he’s just kicking an ant hill in the hope to start some sort of heated race discussion where there was none so far.
With all these PM changes in recent years, not once did the Tories think of appointing a Smith – shocking, in my view!
What the American commentators don’t understand, is that while the USA has been layered in segregationist law all its life, the UK does not and never has had a single law that applies differently to one race vs another. They think, like many people here now do, that because we share a similar language, we share a similar history, and outlook, and that just isn’t the case. The UK has always found a way of incorporating people from other nations, although we are being sorely tested by the volume of what arrives at our door today.
My guess would be that they simply don’t care. To the wokist, the world began in 1492 and anything outside of the US of A is just different geographical backdrop for their drama.
I heard a story relating to WW2 the other day. As the troops were amassing in Britain for the D-Day landings the Americans were all for segregating their black troops, but the locals would not do it and welcomed Black and White troops into the same pubs and other public places all together.
I have no confidence that the Embassy in Washington will be on this case.
Which case, seriously? Random US duckhead holds the same speech again? With The Speech really being nothing but a random sequence of well-known terms combined with ad hoc chosen filler words? This guy doesn’t mean to say anything. He’s just trolling for page hits by using words known to annoy people. He’d probably be hard-pressed if he was asked to explain what he actually intended to express in plain English.
Meanwhile, Talk TV’s Mike Graham was more blunt, writing: You do wonder if Americans are the thickest people on the planet.”
With the greatest respect to Mr. Graham, wondering doesn’t come into it.
Cause and effect. Does being on the Left cause mental illness, or is it the result of mental illness?
Never heard of the feller. Does he matter? I assume not…
Was there the same outcry when the US voted in a man of colour as their president a few years ago? Or recently for their vice president, who is not only non-white but also a woman.
Mike Graham, yes Americans are the thickest people on the planet. I am one and thank you for making such a broad sweeping statement which shows you must be one of the smartest men in the world. We all know how clever…..no, I won’t go there. Isn’t necessary.