A Greenpeace activist staged a protest in support of his colleagues currently jailed in Russia by dangling from the Eiffel Tower in a tent for several hours on Saturday, ending his show of encouragement only when firemen removed him from the site.
After lowering himself from the second floor of the Paris tourist attraction – a height of 378 feet (115 meters) – the activist hung in the tent for about two hours Saturday morning, displaying banners reading “Free the Arctic 30” and “Militants in prison, climate in danger,” in homage to a September 18 Greenpeace stunt at an Arctic oil rig that’s led to Russia’s prosecution of the activists and journalists involved.
