“You can theoretically make the case that, in a democratic monarchy, the portrait of the head of state is a Republican symbol but, if that is the case, you have to say so, yet no one is saying it.” The speaker is Alexandre Faro, lawyer for the climate action group Action Non violente-COP21 (ANV-COP21), which is campaigning for climate justice. As far as the lawyer is concerned there are more questions that answers when it comes to the way his clients are being placed in custody and sent for trial in significant numbers.
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