Pollution protest march in Paris

Press, 8 April 1978, Page 7

Pollution protest march in Paris

NZPA-Reuter Paris Several thousand people have staged a march in Paris to protest against the, oil spilled by the wrecked supertanker Amoco Cadiz which polluted the picturesque Brittany coast. The demonstration, by an; estimated 6000 people, was backed by the Socialist’ Partv and Communist Party.! as well as several Left-wing' trade unions. The police 'say one demon-; straior who was masked' threw a petrol bomb at a police car. Another car was! also set alight, but there were no other incidentsThe marchers, calling for immediate compensation for those affected by the disaster and for stricter controls on tankers, chanted “multi-natitonal . . . multipollution.”

i The 109,000-tonne tanker ran aground on March 16, I spilling its cargo of 220,000 i tonnes of crude oil, and :j fouling some 200 km of II coastline. . The police said they arrested 21 people during and after the demonstration. In a scuffle after the 1 1 march three large windows I ; | of a tourist hotel were! J smashed. Liberia pians to hold an ’ inquiry into the wreck of the Liberian-registered tank-1 Jer. H Mr Ernest McClain; a pert . (manent executive on the >' Liberian Commission for , Maritime Affairs, told "INZPA-Reutei that a board of ■'inquiry would begin a week- . I long public hearing into the I accident in London in June.