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Posted on 09/18/2019 8:56:27 PM PDT by RightGeek
Two climate crisis protesters who removed Emmanuel Macron’s portrait from an official building were justified in doing so because of the severity of the environmental emergency, a judge has said.
The judge in Lyon acquitted the pair of theft in a ruling hailed as historic by campaigners.
In February, a group of 20 activists entered the town hall in a district of the French city. Two of them, Fanny Delahalle, 33, and Pierre Goinciv, 32, removed a portrait of the president, copies of which hang in all official buildings in France. They were pictured holding the gold-framed portrait outside the entrance of the building.
Prosecutors demanded they be fined €500 (£445). The public prosecutor, Rozenn Huon, told the court: “It’s clearly theft and it has done nothing to help climate change.”
The judge conceded “an object of a very strong symbolic value” had been stolen but said the climate crisis was more serious.
“Climate change is a constant that seriously affects the future of humanity by provoking natural catastrophes that poorer countries don’t have the means to protect themselves against,” he said.
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The public prosecutor’s office said it would appeal against the decision.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
If your alibi breaks down, if you can’t plead the fifth - plead climate change.
The old “neccesity” defense. Pretty much dead here (I hope)
“I thought we had some bad judges.”
You preemptively read my mind! :)
Me: "Climate Change."
Officer: "OK, I'll let you off with a warning this time."
“The robbery suspect is wearing a blue hat, grey pants, a party mask of some kind, and a gray hoodie with... wait a minute... A Saying that states “Climate Change”- Ok- calling off pursuit”
Beats the Twinkies defense.
Wonder if I can call in sick due to “climate change”. Hell, let’s have a new federal holiday so we can all stay home, BBQ, drink beer and be in our safe spaces.
My, how easily the mind gets corrupted.
Why doesn’t France just put a gun to its head and get it over with quickly?
Because they are too lazy, but that's what the new Saracen immigrants are for ...
Like Germany?
Oops, sorry, IRS. The climate crisis prevented me from paying any taxes.
Yeah pretty much.
And I thought England for a long while...we shall see what happens there.
lol
That wasn’t written to be funny i’m sure but the irony was pretty funny.
They are MORE than willing to.
“There are some good ones”
There were probably more than some good German people And Italians. Didn’t matter. No time to sort them out in a war.
It’s sad but it’s the way it has to be.
lol
And sorry boss for staying home and sleeping.
And sorry wife for cheating.
And sorry cops for robbing that deli.
The climate made me do it.
I think I’ll go on a climate change spree.
Thanks RightGeek. The perps will, however, be charged with various crimes related to bad taste in art (it is in France, after all), and given mandatory psychiatric exams.
Hmmm - I didn’t realize that’s how the law worked. So, theft is excusable. I’m curious to see if defense attorneys cite this case in the future. What a nut case of a judge.
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