- Title: Climate activists, 'yellow vests' join forces at Paris mall protest
- Date: 5th October 2019
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (OCTOBER 5, 2019) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS GATHERED INSIDE ITALIE 2 MALL, SOME HANGING GIANT BANNER ON WINDOW PROTESTERS GATHERED MASKED PROTESTERS STANDING ON PLATFORM ABOVE DOOR CARRYING BANNER WITH PICTURE OF YELLOW VEST AND READING (French): "TOGETHER LET'S DESTROY THOSE WHO ARE DESTROYING US" WOODEN BOARDS AND YELLOW VEST BLOCKING MALL DOORS GIANT BANNER ON WINDOW READING (French): "LET'S DESTROY THE PALACE OF POWER" PROTESTERS GATHERED, CHANTING PROTESTERS HANGING BANNER BANNER READING (French): "RADICAL ECOLOGY - DEATH TO THE CAPITAL" PROTESTERS AND PEOPLE INSIDE MALL VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS SEATED ON GROUND, GATHERED IN CIRCLE (SOUNDBITE) (French) 26-YEAR-OLD EDF ENERGY COMPANY EMPLOYEE, MARTIN, SAYING: "There's an enormous suffering in society today, in France and abroad. We see there are riots around the world. People are not satisfied with the way society is organised, and places of consumption, such as this mall, are places where we consume too much, where people are poorly paid, and where everything is going terribly for people and other animals." POLICE LINES UP INSIDE MALL PROTESTERS GATHERED IN FRONT OF CLOSED STORE WINDOW (SOUNDBITE) (French) 18-YEAR-OLD NURSING STUDENT, ANTOINE PIRON, SAYING: "We are realising that it's unacceptable today to consume and consume endlessly. We have to transform words into actions, because since the 1970s, we've been talking about the Earth that's burning, and today's the time to spring into action. So, we are here to protest climate inaction and to say that everything is going too slowly. We really have to move faster if we want to hope to survive and for other generations to survive after ours." PLACARD READING (French): "TOUCH MY FOREST ONE MORE TIME AND I'LL MAKE FIREWOOD WITH YOUR PENIS" VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS GATHERED, CHANTING VARIOUS OF EXTERIORS OF ITALIE 2 MALL
- Embargoed: 19th October 2019 12:47
- Keywords: Paris France protests Extinction Rebellion yellow vests climate group environment mall Italie 2
- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
- City: PARIS, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001AZTLE87
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Activists from climate protection group Extinction Rebellion joined "yellow vest" protesters to protest climate inaction and capitalism inside a Paris mall on Saturday (October 5).
Dozens of demonstrators, many of them masked, blocked the doors to the city's Italie 2 mall and hung banners on the establishment's glass windows.
"Yellow vests," who have been marching in the city for months in demonstrations that have turned violent in its early days before winding down in the early summer, joined the group at the protest.
The protest launches a series of occupation of buildings organised by Extinction Rebellion throughout the month of October in the world's major cities such as Berlin, New York and London.
Saturday's action comes after other demonstrations led by the group in Paris, such as a bridge blockade in June that saw youth protesters clashing with police.
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