France: eight activists will be tried for taking pictures of Emmanuel Macron

Eight activists will be judged this Wednesday in Paris for having removed official portraits of French President Emmanuel Macron from public buildings as part of a protest to denounce "the climate inaction" of the state.

Activists aged 23 to 36 must respond to charge of "robbery in meeting" before a Paris court for having removed the portraits of the president of several municipalities in February of this year. Another 29-year-old, who has filmed several of these protests, is also scheduled to appear in court.

The maximum penalty in France for the charge of "visual theft" is five years in prison and 75,000 euros fine.

These actions are part of a civil disobedience campaign "Pick up Macron" who seeks to denounce the alleged inaction of the French state against the government global warming.

The movement that organizes this campaign, called Non-violent action COP21 (ANV-COP21), indicates that 128 portraits of Emmanuel Macron were removed from several administrative buildings throughout France.

The last act of this type took place at the town hall of Irissary, a small town near Biarritz, on the eve of the G7 summit held in this coastal town. Atlantic.

In the first lawsuit against this symbolic action civil disobedience, an environmental activist was sentenced in May to a fine of 250 euros.

Two weeks later, another court acquitted three activists who had briefly removed the portrait of the president from a city hall in the north-east of the European country.