2023-08-07 23:59:26
Film-Festival Locarno
Swiss climate activists stick themselves on the festival stage
Festival stage instead of highway: two activists from the organization Renovate Switzerland disrupted an award ceremony at the Locarno Film Festival – and earned applause.
Published8. Aug 2023, 1:59 am
The climate activists are given the floor on the stage of the Locarno Film Festival. (7 Aug 2023)
Video: 20min/News-Scout
An award ceremony took place on Monday evening on the Piazza Grande in Locarno.
She was interrupted by two climate activists from Renovate Switzerland.
The director who received the award even presented the two with the microphone.
There was applause from the audience.
“We are here for the same cause,” said environmentalist and director Luc Jacquet when he spoke to the audience at the Locarno Film Festival on Monday evening and the two of them Climate activists glued to the stage just before had. Then Jacquet handed the microphone to one of the two activists.
In a statement from Renovate Switzerland, which organizes this and similar protests, Robin Jolissaint explains the action: “I’m not here to annoy the audience or the organizers of the festival. If the 8,000 viewers who are watching the nature film tonight join Renovate Switzerland, it would reinforce our demand: The Swiss government should take concrete and immediate measures to protect the population from the current climate collapse.”
Cécile Bessire, who was on stage with Jolissaint, refers to the severe storm that recently devastated La Chaux-de-Fonds. «Who are next on the list to be affected by the climate crisis?» It’s not too late to act.
While other campaigns by Renovate Switzerland such as the blockade of a motorway exit near Bern sometimes met with incomprehension and the two heard a few boos here as well, but in the end they both received applause from the audience. However, according to the statement, the two were later carried away and taken to the police.
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