PARIS (AP) An environmental activist was arrested Wednesday immediately after falling a new billowing smoke a pipe bomb upon that roofing on the French nuclear reactor before a vital presidential election debate, Greenpeace along with criminal court said.
Video footage with the dramatic stunt grabbed this airborne activist for a remote-control operated paraglider right after he decreased the actual smoking bomb at the Bugey web site 35 kilometers (22 miles) east of Lyon.
The activist started circling this reactor before building a loose descent towards ground using a parachute noticeable "Greenpeace." The label from the activist was not released, but neighborhood court arrest confirmed the arrest.
Plant seller EDF provides defended your property's security measures, saying in a very affirmation they "were focused throughout the later part of 2011 (to) make it possible for detection as well as quick tension from the perpetrator."
Greenpeace nuclear spokesman, Yannick Rousselet, shared with The Associated Press your spectacle appeared to be intended to be able to spark a new political discussion about nuclear power.
"We're several nights prior to a presidential election, as well as neither (President) Nicolas Sarkozy as well as Francois Hollande are generally taking the challenge seriously. Seventy-five percentage regarding French electric usage is nuclear, and this should drop. We hope this would often be a chatting stage in tonight's TV presidential debate," said Rousselet.
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