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Added on the 09/02/2021 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Several dozen people gather in front of an Amazon warehouse in Douai in northern France to protest over-spending and its ecological consequences on Black Friday. IMAGES
Activists sets tires ablaze to block the highway between Girona and Barcelona as twelve former Catalan leaders go on trial at Spain's Supreme Court for their role in a failed 2017 bid to break away from Spain. IMAGES
Two environmental activists throw soup at the armoured glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre museum in Paris, justifying their action by their desire to promote "the right to healthy and sustainable food." IMAGES
French farmers dump tyres, soil, manure and wooden pallets outside a train station in Agen in southwest France. Across the country, angry farmers are blockading motorways and calling on the government to respond immediately to their distress. IMAGES
Activists from the French environmental group Derniere Renovation spray orange paint at the foot of the giant Christmas tree at Strasbourg's Christmas market to highlight climate inaction as COP28 gets underway in Dubai. IMAGES
Images show Berlin's Brandenburg Gate splattered with orange paint after activists from the "Last Generation" ("Letzte Generation") environmental collective spray-painted the six pillars of the emblematic monument to warn of the urgency of global warming and demand a change in the German government's policy. The movement is calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels by 2030 at the latest. Police arrested around ten activists near the gate, some of whom were still sitting on the ground, handcuffed. IMAGES