Climate protesters face tear gas at oil giant TotalEnergies shareholder meeting in Paris
Source: AP
PARIS (AP) — French police threw a security cordon around a shareholders’ meeting in Paris of oil giant TotalEnergies on Friday, spraying tear gas and pushing back climate protesters who chanted, “Be gentle, police officers, we’re doing this for your kids!”
Shareholders, some escorted into the meeting by police, ran a gauntlet of the peaceful, earnest and mostly young demonstrators, who waved signs attacking the climate record of the French energy company that has reaped colossal profits from price surges that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Their signs declared, “The last pipeline before the end of the world” and “Listen to the scientists: No more fossil projects.”
Protesters sat down in surrounding streets and linked arms to block access to the meeting in a famed Paris concert hall. Police officers carried some protesters to move them out of the way. They sprayed tear gas to force people back.
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