At 12:30 today, activists from the environmental collective Last Renewal and the Italian movement Last Generation blocked the two entrances to the tunnel Mont Blancto Chamonix on the French side and ad Aosta on the Italian side.
“With one voice, citizens demand that our governments act on climate change. This world is doomed before our eyes,” they wrote on Twitter in a series of posts accompanied by photos showing activists waving a banner as they blockaded a road leading to the tunnel. “The economic impact of this lockdown is nothing compared to the billions of euros wasted every day burning fossil fuels – they continue – Our governments have been locked in a wait-and-see attitude for too long and are not even able to meet their commitments” .
The Autoroutes et Tunnel du Mont Blanc (ATMB) group reports on its website that “access to the Mont Blanc tunnel is interrupted by demonstrators on the French side” with the formation of a “one kilometer queue”. The improvised garrison was cleared and around 2 pm the situation returned to normal.
