Overview

• On June 5, two Greenpeace activists were presented to a Paris investigative judge for probable indictment on charges of group theft of cultural property.
• The pair have been held for over 60 hours and have spent three nights in custody since their arrest on June 2.
• They posed as maintenance workers to remove the wax effigy from Musée Grévin before placing it outside the Russian embassy.
• Greenpeace returned the undamaged statue to EDF headquarters after notifying authorities, underscoring its intent as a symbolic 'borrowed' protest tool.
• Their lawyer denounces detention conditions as unjustifiably harsh and urges France to curb imports of Russian gas and uranium.