The Guardia Civil and the French National Gendarmerie have arrested two members of the Spanish environmental organisation Futuro Vegetal in France as alleged perpetrators of sabotage committed against a petrol station in the French town of Laruns in the early hours of 8 September.
The two ecologists count on several arrests for other actions carried out as members of Futuro Vegetal, among them the assault on a private jet in the ibiza airport , which they sprayed with paint to demand from the government that the subsidies given to livestock farming be transferred to “the promotion of socially and ecologically responsible alternatives based on vegetables”. For this action, which they carried out last July, the detainees circumvented airport security, gaining access to the runway.
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The two detainees had also participated in the madrid’s M-30 and M-40 road closures in December 2022 and April 2023respectively. In addition, one of them participated in the activists bursting into the Congress of Deputies on January 30, 2023.
The Guardia Civil has explained that Futuro Vegetal framed, in a publication on its website, the sabotage against the gas station within its strategy for the 2023-2024 course, describing it as “an action of solidarity with E.S., an Argentine citizen indicted for an act against a multinational electricity and gas energy supply company”.
Futuro Vegetal also pointed out that this action was not only a response to this persecution, but also “to all the damage caused by the multinational all over the planet”. The publication also included a video of the action.
All this led to a police investigation in which the Information Headquarters of the Guardia Civil participated with the collaboration of the Information Groups of Navarra and Huesca, and the French authorities. This is the first international police investigation into crimes committed by members of Futuro Vegetal outside Spain.
The investigation has come to an end with the arrest of the two members, to whom the following information has been provided are charged with the alleged crimes of degradation with two aggravating factors, multiple perpetrators and concealed face, according to French criminal law. Both, prominent members of Futuro Vegetal, carried out the action with their faces covered.
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