Activists from the Nantes branch of the association attacked, on Sunday, two car dealerships of a World Cup partner in Qatar, located in Saint-Herblain.
Le Figaro Nantes
They wanted to send a “red card” to a partner of the World Cup in Qatar. On Sunday December 11, members of Nantes Extinction Rebellion took action against two car dealerships of the Hyundai and Kia brands located in Saint-Herblain, a town in the Nantes conurbation.
Activists plastered posters on the facade of two buildings and threw a “blood-like liquid” on multiple vehicles, accurate to Figaro an activist who evokes a “action of civil disobedience without degradation”. They also drew dead workers on the ground, resuming the chalk marking of crime scenes. Representations accompanied by small signs denouncing “6500 dead” or even the undermining of the rights of LGBT + people in Qatar.
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“Because it is useful to react to the way this World Cup was built in Qatar, we have again taken action against these two other sponsors of this filthy cup”write the members of the local branch of the association on their twitter account, who denounce a “human and ecological massacre”.
In its text, the group indicates that it has targeted these brands because they are part of “sponsors who have still not publicly announced their support for compensation requests” for workers in Qatar as requested by Amnesty International. “Our staging served to highlight the lack of commitment of this sponsor on this subject”underlines a member of Nantes Extinction Rebellion.
“They are on the wrong target”
Following this ” degradation “the head of the Kia dealership in question does not currently plan to file a complaint. “There was no breakage. They stuck a poster and threw a liquid that comes off with cold water on vehicles. It’s not gross vandalism.”explain to FigaroAlexandre Paillé, the regional concessions manager of the CGA group.
If he says ” sensitive “ to the subjects denounced by the activists of Extinction Rebellion, he believes that the latter have not chosen the right place to raise awareness of their cause: “They are on the wrong target. It is not us, on our scale, who decide on Kia’s sponsorship choices and it is not this brand that has chosen to have the FIFA World Cup take place in Qatar. It is a choice of Fifa. »
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