In the United Kingdom, Just Stop Oil Collective ends its shock actions

The activists of the British environmental collective Just Stop Oil, known for their spectacular actions carried out for three years, paraded on Saturday, April 26 in London for the last time, while some of its members are still imprisoned. A few hundred people have wandered silently through the center of the British capital, from Parliament to the Petroleum and Gas Giant Seat of Concha, where they removed their emblematic fluorescent orange click. Then they revealed an illustrated shirt with an interrogation sign, while a giant sign did: “We had an impact and what did you do?” ».

Just Stop Oil announced in March the cessation of its shock actions whose images have gone throughout the world, from road blockages to soup jets in museums, with which the ecological group has attracted the anger of the British governments from 2022. The group officially stops its actions after the labor executive commitment to stop any new oil or gas project in the United Kingdom.

In the middle of the period, the procession was arrested before the Court of Appeals, which confirmed in March the prison sentences inflicted on ten activists to stop oil. Among them are the two activists who had thrown soup on the table. Sunflower By Van Gogh. One of the organizers of the walk, Tim Crosland, denounced a “Testing Similacre”while the protesters raised the portraits of imprisoned activists.

Eleven activists imprisoned

In total, eleven activists are currently behind bars, including the co -founder of the Roger Hallam movement, and five others must be imprisoned in May. Since 2022, the movement has a total of 3,300 arrests in the United Kingdom.

Mel Carrington, one of the spokesmen of the movement, acknowledges from AFP that “Repression [judiciaire] makes mobilization more difficult, and that the context has changed “. In particular, he quotes Donald Trump’s choice in the United States, which began a reverse in the fight against global warming. The actions stop, but only stop oil will continue to exist to support its imprisoned members or waiting for a demand, he explains, and goes “Work to develop a strategy for the future” With other civil disobedience movements.