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Greenpeace activists on French aircraft carrier carrying asbestos

Toulon, France - The "Clemenceau" appears destined to a scrapyard in the far India

This morning, three Greenpeace activists scaled the mast of the French aircraft carrier "Clemenceau" in Toulon road, unfurling a banner reading "Asbestos carrier stay out of India". Another activist buzzed the "Clemenceau" deck with a motorized paraglider and a banner reading "Not here. Not Anywhere". The aircraft carrier, since 1997 when it was decommissioned, remained to wait for its fate: to find...

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Rome, Italy, 12/12/2005 18:47
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