The French, of all people, took some very direct action against Greenpiss when their operatives sank its flagship Rainbow Warrior in a New Zealand harbor back in the 1980s. The Greenies were threatening to try to disrupt French nuclear tests. Non, non, non!! said the French. No one was killed or injured but the ship didn't delay any nuke tests either.
Actually, a photographer was killed in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, and the Kiwis were very upset with France about it. When they jailed the French agents responsible for the manslaughter, they threatened to put EU embargo on NZ agricultural produce until they gave them up to the French, who made scarcely a token effort to punish them.