The Liberate the Louvre Collective occupies the Louvre Museum

They occupied the Louvre for 2 hours. Climate activists want the museum to break its links with Total.

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00:00Revolution of land, air and water, exploitation and transportation of gas.

00:07We support you.

00:30We support you.

00:39It symbolizes those people who are suffering the most from climate change.

00:43They don't have a voice, they're invisible, they're far away from Paris.

00:46And we're in empathy with them, we're in solidarity with them.

00:50We support you.

01:09Whereas Total keep exploring for gas and oil around the world,

01:13not respecting the climate agreements that have been made,

01:17we feel that the museum should break its links with Total,

01:21because that's not the mission of the museum.

01:33As the representative of the largest French museum,

01:37we ask him to take on this leadership

01:41and to join a museum like the Tate,

01:44which ended its partnership with BP after many performances

01:48by a collective of the same type.