October 2nd 1995.
Update from the Greenpeace UK protestors on the day of the second French test
We've just completed a brilliant action here in London.
At 0730 hours sixteen activists equipped with ladders went into the French Ambassador's back garden in Kensington Gardens in Central London and managed to get onto the roof.
74KB GIFBefore getting to the garden they were accosted by a soldier carrying a lance on horseback [the soldiers were practising in the field next door to the diplomatic houses]. He came up, took one look and then galloped off. The cavalry arrived too late. If you want your windows cleaned we have sixteen skilled ladder climbers now in Greenpeace UK.
The activists started to blow foghorns and whistles making onme helluva racket. They also were waving French flags saying 'NON' across them and some saying 'DE-TEST-ABLE'.
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They took the message straight to the ambassador over his coffee and croissants 'Greenpeace wants no more nuclear tests, the people of the UK don't want anymore nuclear tests and the people of the world don't want them either!!!'
About 0900 the fire brigade arrived and sat there scratching their heads trying to figure out how to get them down. After some negotiation everyone left, with the last person being plucked off a chimney pot at 1000 hrs by a fire engine "cherry-picker" type affair.
The sixteen were arrested for tresspassing on embassy property
and are in a police station awaiting release at the moment.