The trial of 13 activists from Attac and Extinction Rebellion, who entered the tarmac of Le Bourget Airport (Seine-Saint-Denis) in September 2023, has been postponed, Attac announced on Friday, October 18. The trial was due to be held on Thursday, but has been postponed to May 23, 2025.
“The prosecution should have set aside half a day for this case alone, the court was faced with the fait accompli of postponing the case to another date,” said Mohamed Jaite, lawyer for several defendants summoned to the Bobigny court on Thursday. “I interpret this choice of the prosecution as an expression of a war of attrition against activists and the environmental movement,” denounced the defense lawyer.
Activists from Extinction Rebellion and Attac infiltrated Le Bourget on Friday September 22, 2023. (©Extinction Rebellion)
On September 22, 2023, 13 activists from Attac and Extinction Rebellion entered the airport to prevent private jets from taking off. They also planted trees to “denounce the government’s climate inaction.” The two associations had organized the same type of activist action in October 2022: around thirty people were arrested after an attempted intrusion.
A month earlier, on September 23, the two associations blocked the entrance to Terminal 1 of Le Bourget airport for an hour to also denounce “the responsibility of the ultra-rich in the climate crisis.” Eleven activists were fined, recalls Attac.
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