Police Cut Chains, Take Greenpeace 2 Off Roof
Associated Press
SYDNEY, Australia —
Police armed with chain cutters arrested two Greenpeace environmentalists who padlocked themselves to the roof of the Sydney Opera house today to protest French nuclear testing.
After securing themselves with a padlock and chain to a rail running atop the sloping 175-foot-high marble roof, the pair unfurled a huge banner opposing French nuclear testing in the South Pacific and the arrival of a French frigate for the Royal Australian Navy’s 75th birthday celebrations.
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