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Thursday, August 1, 2019

Taking Macron down: climate protesters strip French town halls of portraits

More than 100 portraits of president removed in symbolic civil disobedience movement

It was a quiet Monday afternoon in the picturesque town hall of Lingolsheim, outside Strasbourg. The school summer holidays had started and it was exceptionally hot. But at 4pm something extraordinary happened.

Eleven people calmly walked in, politely greeted the receptionists, then headed to the room usually reserved for council meetings. They carefully unhooked the picture of the French president, Emmanuel Macron – the type of portrait that hangs in all local administration buildings – gently placing it in a special protective pouch, and then walked out.

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2GHrZke

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