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The growing extremism of France’s eco warriors

19 August 2022

6:43 PM

19 August 2022

6:43 PM

In August 1999 a group of protestors demolished a McDonald’s restaurant under construction in Aveyron, southern France. Their leader was Jose Bové, a middle-class farmer, who whipped up his followers by declaringthat ‘McDo is the symbol of the multinational who wants us to eat crap and make the farmers die’.

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