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Acquittal for an Activist Who Wanted to Save Trees in Fontainebleau

Serge Geoffre has been acquitted. The 62-year-old activist was being prosecuted for damaging "street furniture" because he had erased the red markings made by the National Forestry Office (ONF) on certain trees in the Fontainebleau forest, south of Paris, which were slated for felling. He replaced them with blue circles, which the Friends of the Fontainebleau Forest association uses to mark protected trees. The ONF was claiming €21,500 in damage…
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Serge Geoffre has been acquitted. The 62-year-old activist was being prosecuted for damaging "street furniture" because he had erased the red markings made by the National Forestry Office (ONF) on certain trees in the Fontainebleau forest, south of Paris, which were slated for felling. He replaced them with blue circles, which the Friends of the Fontainebleau Forest association uses to mark protected trees. The ONF was claiming €21,500 in damage…

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Reporterre, le quotidien de l'écologie… broke the news on Thursday, April 16, 2026.
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