French law enforcement has arrested around fifty activists from the radical environmentalist association ‘Extinction Rebellion’ for prepare protest or sabotage actions during the competitions of the Paris Olympic Games.

The announcement was made by the French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who in an interview with the public television channel France 2 explained that in total about 150 people They were going to participate in “actions of sabotage or radical protest.”

This was to happen “during the first tests of the Olympic Games,” added the minister, who did not give details about the type of operations.

‘Extinction Rebellion’, which defines itself as “an international civil disobedience movement in the fight against ecological collapse and climate imbalance”, is characterized by organize surprise shock actions.