One of the largest exhibitions of agencies, manufacturers, and automobiles arrived in Paris, France, aiming to captivate locals and strangers with the next car models of the most exclusive brands worldwide.
However, the celebration was interrupted by a group of people protesting against the launching or presentation of Ferrari cars. They were men and women from the Extinction Rebellion group who performed a stunt in addition to shouting, chanting, and placards.
According to local media, at least a dozen attended the protest, and only four decided to take it a little further, fixing their hands to the cars with a powerful glue to hold on for as long as necessary.
As reported in American Post News earlier, a group of activists demonstrated against fossil fuels on Earth Day.
Activists stick their hands to Ferraris
Through Twitter, the organization assured that their way of sticking to the “exceptional cars” was to publicly denounce “a polluting industry that seeks to wash its image with ‘green’ vehicles but continues to bet on the individual car as the transport of the future.”
They assured that although a car costs 350 Euros per month, there are at least 13.3 million French people who cannot afford it and who, in addition, have a precarious mobility situation, and sufficient varieties of public transportation have not been developed for them.
Protesters were arrested
For these actions, 11 people were arrested, according to the organization itself, who were taken into custody at the police station of district 1; “While climate criminals can be at ease, it is the whistleblowers who are criminalized,” they wrote on their social networks.
Despite this, they wrote a series of demands:
- We demand a ban on the advertising of individual vehicles.
- We demand an improvement in public transport to reduce the precariousness of mobility.
They assured that otherwise, they would continue with the revolts around the world, as they did on October 20 at the Porsche stand in the Volkswagen museum for about 41 hours. They wanted to talk to the company’s CEO to advocate, together with them, for a speed limit in Germany of 100 kilometers per hour, among other requests.