France puts 24 climate activists under house arrest ahead of UN talks

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / AFP

Paris (AFP) - French authorities have placed 24 activists under house arrest ahead of major UN climate warming talks starting near Paris next week, using the state of emergency powers declared after the Paris attacks.

The interior ministry said Friday the measures had been taken to prevent the activists from demonstrating ahead of the COP21 conference, but their lawyers and Amnesty International accused the government of abusing the state of emergency.

Three of those concerned, who are in their late 20s, are suspected of belonging to the "radical opposition movement", according to information obtained by AFP.

They are banned from leaving their home town in western France without special police permission, they must report to a local police station three times a day and remain at their homes between 8:00 pm and 6:00 am until December 12, the day after the talks are due to end.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/france-puts-24-climate-activists-under-house-arrest-191836627.html

[cantbeserious]

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[riversedge]

2. so very convenient --to use the emergency powers. This is wrong.

[SoapBox]

3. "...using the state of emergency powers declared after the Paris attacks."

Gee, using powers, that were invoked from the horrific attacks, to shut down these people.

Police state ultimate?

[CJCRANE]

4. Reminds me of the anti-globalization movement. Remember the late 90s / early 00s

when the anti-globalists were a force to be reckoned with in Seattle, Genoa etc?

Then came 9/11 and it disappeared overninght.

[NobodyHere]

5. When were they "a force to be reckoned with"?

If I recall right they were brushed aside pretty easily by global leaders and left the police to deal with them.

[CJCRANE]

9. That proves my point that they were a threat - they had to sic the riot police on them to suppress

them.

Remember when Shrub slept in an aircraft carrier for the Genoa '01 G8 summit?

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. Nice use of emergency anti-terrorism powers, France!

This is why we need to be very skeptical about granting such powers.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

7. This is how the the Terrorists 'win'. n/t

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. Yup. n/t