Hundreds of climate activists barricaded themselves into a
Paris shopping centre on Saturday as security forces tried to remove them, ahead of a planned series of
protests around the world by the Extinction Rebellion movement.
Campaigners faced off against
police and some inconvenienced shoppers as they occupied part of the Italie 2 mall in southeast Paris.
The protest comes ahead of planned disruption to 60 cities around the world from Monday in a fortnight of civil disobedience, from Extinction Rebellion (XR), which is warning of an environmental "apocalypse".