PARIS (AP) An geographical activist was in jail Wednesday soon after dropping a billowing smoking bomb onto the roofing of any French nuclear reactor before the key presidential selection debate, Greenpeace in addition to police arrest said.
Video footage with the dramatic stunt shot the airborne activist on a remote-control operated paraglider right after he or she lowered this smoke cigars bomb at that Bugey internet site thirty five kilometers (22 miles) distance connected with Lyon.
The activist initiated circling the particular reactor previous to building a shaky descent to help that floor using a parachute marked "Greenpeace." The appoint in the activist had not been released, nevertheless nearby police proved the arrest.
Plant manager EDF possesses defended the actual web site's reliability measures, declaring in a very record that they "were focused inside later 2011 (to) enable detection plus fast pressure of the perpetrator."
Greenpeace nuclear spokesman, Yannick Rousselet, shared with The Associated Press that spectacle ended up being designed to stimulate a political debate on nuclear power.
"We're some days and nights prior to a presidential election, along with neither (President) Nicolas Sarkozy as well as Francois Hollande tend to be taking the situation seriously. Seventy-five percent of French electrical intake is actually nuclear, and this has to drop. We expectation this may always be some sort of conversing place with tonight's TV presidential debate," explained Rousselet.
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