Lyon Metropolis: Environmental activists who took action at Arkema acquitted in the name of freedom of expression

On June 18, eight environmental activists, aged 23 to 43, appeared before the Lyon Criminal Court for participating in an action coordinated by Extinction Rebellion and Youth for Climate. On March 2, several hundred people entered the site of the chemical giant Arkema, in Pierre-Bénite.

They had notably deployed a banner from the highest tower of the site: the word poison with a skull. Tags had been made, doors and windows broken… In their sights, the scandal of the pollution with Pfas revealed two years ago by the investigation of “Vert de…