2023-05-30 16:04:25
The mobilization on Friday in front of the headquarters of TotalEnergies left its mark. Two activists from the environmental association Alternatiba Paris must file a complaint on Tuesday for acts of police violence that occurred during the attempt by several NGOs to block the general assembly of the company last week in Paris, said their lawyer.
Last Friday at dawn, dozens of climate activists from various NGOs tried to block the entrance to the meeting of shareholders of the French hydrocarbon giant, by sitting in front of the entrance. They were dislodged by the police, in particular with tear gas while they were seated. The lawyer and the plaintiffs Hélène and Murielle denounce “disproportionate violence”.
For Murielle, who does not wish to give her surname, throwing tear gas canisters at people “sitting and bored”, “it’s criminal”. This 46-year-old mother, a member of the collective since 2018, accuses the police of having “kicked” her when she was “on the ground” and “could not move”, because she was caught in a human chain. She has since had a doctor note large bruises, which have not given rise to days of ITT, she said, judging “frightening” of “such violence vis-à-vis movements that carry a cause that is not political, but that of everyone”.
Also asphyxiated when she was “nassed”, Hélène, for whom this was the second action of civil disobedience, “found herself pinned to the ground”, where she “almost lost consciousness”. “I have bad knees, I have trouble walking,” she detailed. “I want to file a complaint against these attacks, because it is out of the question that we let this pass. »
“Other complaints will follow”
“Two complaints will be filed with the IGPN (font font) for violence with weapons by a person holding public authority in a meeting as well as non-assistance to a person in danger and violation of the freedom to demonstrate”, their lawyer, Arié Alimi, told a press conference, adding that they would be coupled with the filing of a complaint with the Paris prosecutor’s office. “There was an action that was non-violent”, but opposite, “we see that there is a desire to hurt the activists”, he denounced. “Other complaints will follow against Total shareholders and security guards who have also committed violence,” he added.
The NGOs present at the GA on Friday demanded “concrete and immediate commitments” from TotalEnergies (…) and the end of any new fossil fuel project”, giving rise to tense exchanges between activists and shareholders of the giant French hydrocarbons. The Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, considered on the sidelines of the action that the activists were “in their role of alerting and saying that we must accelerate” the ecological transition.
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