- This Wednesday, a pro-Palestinian activist disrupted the arrival of the Tour de France stage in Toulouse.
- The man wearing a t-shirt on which one could read “Israel Out of the Tour” managed to sneak until the road.
- Rebellion extinction (XR) Toulouse claimed an “punch action for Palestine”.
A man wearing a t-shirt on which we could read “Israel out of the Tour”
(“Israel outside the Tour”
) and having disrupted Wednesday the arrival of the Tour de France stage in Toulouse was arrested, AFP journalists found.
The man, who succeeded, despite the safety barriers, to reach the roadway on which the cyclists rolled, ran to the finish line, Palestinian Keffieh in hand, before being intercepted by a man of the organization in charge of stopover, then arrested.
A “punch” action
The prefecture confirmed this arrest, without providing other details, while extinction rebellion (XR) Toulouse claimed a “Pading action for Palestine”
.
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SO “That Israel publicly displays a desire to exterminate the Palestinian population, a cycling team proclaiming itself ‘Ambassador of Israel’ was authorized to participate in the Tour de France”
written in an XR press release, requesting the exclusion of the Israel Premier Tech team, created by the Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams.