Fishermen in the southern French port city of Marseille on Wednesday used Greenpeace's own tactics against it by preventing the environmental activist group's flagship from docking.
An AFP journalist saw 21 tuna fishing vessels circling Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior II and stopping it from moving into Marseille's harbour.
The fishermen oppose Greenpeace's plans to campaign in Marseille against overfishing of bluefin tuna.
Rainbow Warrior II initially obtained permission to dock in Marseille's historic port close to the centre of the city, but that was retracted on security grounds. ...
[Greenpeace] said the blockade was preventing the Rainbow Warrior II from making a an authorised brief stop in the port to fill its water tanks and obtain equipment.
But Mourad Kahoul, a municipal councillor and the head of a tuna fishermen's union involved in the protest, said they would give the Greenpeace vessel just "two hours" to get out those provisions.
"And then -- happy sailing for its next propaganda port of call," he said.
Hey, the Greenies got off easy this time, In 1985 the French were suspected of bombing the original Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor. The Rainbow Warrior had been causing problems for the French at their nuclear testing site, and French special forces are thought to have blown up the ship. At least this time they got to sail away in one piece.
If Greenpeace really wants get the French out of their way, they should consider converting to Islam. Then the Frenchies won't bother them.
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