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Greenpeace activists face fine over Eiffel Tower protest

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 05:17:15 +0100

Greenpeace activists who hung a banner from the Eiffel Tower in protest against far-right leader Marine Le Pen should be given €500 fines and suspended sentences, French prosecutors said on Friday.

French apology 'won't absolve Warrior murder'

Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:32:38 +0200

An apology from a French secret service frogman who helped blow up the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985 does not absolve him and then president Francois Mitterrand of "cold-blooded murder", the ship's captain said Monday.

French agent 'sorry' for sinking Rainbow Warrior

Sun, 06 Sep 2015 13:02:57 +0200

The French secret service frogman who attached the mines which sank the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand 30 years ago apologised for his actions in an interview Sunday with investigative website Mediapart.

Anger lives on over French bombing of ship

Tue, 07 Jul 2015 10:36:34 +0200

Thirty years after France's deadly bomb attack on Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior ship in New Zealand and anger still runs deep.

France beefs up security at nuclear plants

Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:53:00 +0100

Security at France’s nuclear power stations will be increased, the government announced this week, after dozens of Greenpeace activists stormed the country’s oldest plant to highlight how vulnerable it is.

Greenpeace dumps coal outside Elysée Palace

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:26:00 +0100

Just hours before Paris was set to host a Franco-German summit, activists from Greenpeace dumped a truck load of coal and 2,000 litres of "radioactive" water outside the Elysée Palace as part of a protest demanding the two countries seek greener energy solutions.

Greenpeace activist protests on Eiffel Tower

Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:34:00 +0200

A Greenpeace activist on Saturday staged a two-hour protest in a tent suspended from the second floor of the Eiffel Tower against Russia's detention of 30 members of the environmental lobby group.

Row after minister says nuclear is the future

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:18:00 +0200

French Greens reacted angrily on Monday after a government minister described nuclear power as the "energy of the future," casting doubt on a commitment to slash the country's number of reactors.

Greenpeace in nuclear smoke bomb attack

Wed, 02 May 2012 12:05:00 +0200

A Greenpeace activist flew into a nuclear power plant near Lyon on Wednesday morning, depositing a red smoke canister on the roof of a reactor, in a bid to demonstrate French nuclear sites' vulnerability.

Greenpeace accuses nuclear group of spying

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:38:00 +0100

Greenpeace on Tuesday said it had filed a criminal complaint against French nuclear giant Areva which it suspects of having spied on the environmental group.

French nuclear plants to beef up security

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:13:00 +0100

France will beef up security at its nuclear plants after Greenpeace activists broke into two facilities, the head of energy firm EDF said on Friday, denouncing the stunt as "stupid".

Greenpeace activists 'should be shot': youth politician

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:28:12 +0100

An official for the youth branch of France's ruling UMP tweeted on Monday that Greenpeace activists who broke into French nuclear plants should be shot. He has since been fired and has apologised.

Nuclear plant invaded by Greenpeace activists

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:18:00 +0100

Greenpeace activists sneaked into a French nuclear power plant on Monday, the environmental group announced, an "intrusion" which police confirmed.