SHOES OF PROTEST
The Place de la Republique is covered in pairs of shoes on November 29 in downtown Paris, as part of a symbolic rally on the eve of the UN conference on climate change COP21; the placing of shoes was an attempt to avoid the French authorities’ ban on public gatherings. Paris extended a ban on public gatherings introduced after the terror attacks in the French capital until November 30, the start of the UN climate talks. AFP PHOTO
The Place de la Republique is covered in pairs of shoes on November 29 in downtown Paris, as part of a symbolic rally on the eve of the UN conference on climate change COP21; the placing of shoes was an attempt to avoid the French authorities’ ban on public gatherings. Paris extended a ban on public gatherings introduced after the terror attacks in the French capital until November 30, the start of the UN climate talks. AFP PHOTO
PARIS: Hundreds of thousands of people rallied around the world Sunday on the eve of a Paris summit aimed at averting catastrophic climate change, but violent clashes in the French capital soured the show of people power.