He bypassed security and chained himself to the net. Photo: Reuters
Alizé, a 22-year-old woman who campaigns against climate change, invaded the main pitch of Roland Garros this Friday as Norway’s Casper Ruud and Croatian Marin Cilic played the second semifinal of the men’s tournament. The game was stopped for 12 minutes later the young activist will be chained to the net. The match was 3-6 6-4 4-1 15-all when the action was stopped.
“We have 1028 days left”, Said the message that Alizée had written on a white T-shirt before being tied to the network. The two players, for safety reasons, left the field and the security officers managed to make her escape after making sure she was not armed.
The message that the young woman’s shirt said. Photo: Reuters
The young woman belongs to the Derniere Renovation movement which militates to prevent the climate emergency. “That the government immediately undertakes to ensure the complete and effective renovation of French real estate by 2040 and to develop a simple and progressive financing system that covers all the works for the most modest owners,” she proclaims on her website.
“We are in 2022 and it is time to face reality, the world in which politicians send us is a world in which Roland Garros will no longer be able to live. Today I entered the field because I can no longer run the risk of doing nothing. facing the climate emergency “, says Alizée on the group’s official website.
Alizée is a member of Derniere Renovation.
According to the French movement, “1028 days are all we have left to determine the future of humanity”. “Less than three years”, they underline, while specifying that “the countdown began on March 28, 2022, the end of the ultimatum sent by Last Renovation to the Government, and the date on which citizens entered civil resistance”.
“France has been condemned by its own courts for climate inertia. The future of this country is literally destroyed. Wasting time means perishing,” they say. And they quote Sir David King, former UK government science advisor: “You have to go very fast. What we do in the next 3 or 4 years, I am convinced, will determine the future of the human species “.
The Australian background
A security approached the woman with the sign to contain the protest. Photo by AP / Hamish Blair
The truth is that tennis is no stranger to this type of protest. It had already happened in the previous Grand Slam, the Australian Open, where during the final between Rafael Nadal and the Russian Daniil Medvedev a spectator entered the field with a sign calling for “the abolition of refugee detention”.
The woman broke through the surveillance cordon and exploded at the end of the camp, where the Russian remained. However, she was soon captured by numerous security members and the meeting was only interrupted for a few minutes. She carried a flag with an inscription calling for refugees in Australia. “Abolish refugee detention”, she reads herself on the white rag with black letters.
The refugees showed up during the scandal before the dispute of the first Grand Slam of the year which featured Serbian Novak Djokovic. Before being deported and while arguing with the government to try to stay in the ocean country without being vaccinated, the Serb was detained at the Park Hotel in Melbourne, a place where numerous unrecognized refugees from Australia are isolated.
A group of over thirty gathered that Sunday morning at the gates of this center to once again show their support for the refugees who are struggling to obtain visas in the oceanic country.
Source: Clarin