Last Wednesday morning, Sofia Araujo left home with her two-month-old son to go to the hospital for an appointment. But when he got to the car—a Volkswagen Tiguan, a hybrid—he noticed that both tires on the driver’s side were flat. The situation was strange, but it didn’t take long for Sofia to realize what had happened. On the driver’s door handle, she gave him a white sheet, the size of A5, an explanation: “We have deflated one or more of your tires,” he read in the first eight paragraphs of the same paper in which the authors of the same action justified the “catastrophe for the climate” that I meant. An SUV, like your car, is for the environment. At the end, the signature: “Tyre extinguishers.”
Sophia was one of several victims of an international group, apparently inorganic, but which has carried out hundreds of actions against cars that the group defends as an attack on the environment. A group that, over the months, seems to have professionalized its actions and, in addition to the “black list” of cars to be achieved with its actions, also provides a complete instruction manual for all those who intend to repeat these actions.
Climate activists deflate SUV tires, promise more ‘actions in Portugal’ and ‘blacklist’ brands and models
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