{"id":297804,"date":"2025-11-20T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297804\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:34:11","slug":"pro-palestine-protester-in-2025-tour-de-france-receives-e300-fine-for-running-onto-toulouse-stage-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/297804\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestine protester in 2025 Tour de France receives \u20ac300 fine for running onto Toulouse stage finish"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pro-Palestine protester in the 2025 Tour de France<\/a> who broke onto the finishing straight at Toulouse<\/a> at the end of stage 11 has received a \u20ac300 fine in court for his actions.<\/p>\n

The action formed part of multiple protests against the presence of Israel-Premier Tech<\/a> in the Tour.<\/p>\n

Wearing an ‘Israel out of the Tour’ t-shirt and waving a keffiyeh, the black-and-white checkered headscarf that has become a symbol of the pro-Palestine cause, the protester vaulted over the barriers with around 100 metres to go. <\/p>\n

He then ran towards the finish line just as the riders were completing the day’s racing, at one point being parallel to breakaway stage winner Jonas Abrahamsen<\/a> (Uno-X Mobility).<\/p>\n

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While no riders were injured or directly affected, during the hearing, according to reports by AFP<\/a>, the public prosecutor underlined the dangers of breaking onto the course and insisted that, “Freedom of expression cannot happen at the risk of other people’s safety.”<\/p>\n

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Speaking in his defence, the protester said that he had been very careful and planned not to go anywhere near the riders or interrupt the course.<\/p>\n

He added that his aim was simply to get a political message across and protest against the presence of Israel-Premier Tech<\/a> in the race.<\/p>\n

“Politically speaking, that objective was reached,” he insisted. “The idea was to get people talking about the people of Gaza and what is going on there.”<\/p>\n

In October 2023, a Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, sparked Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.<\/p>\n

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Despite the implementation of a recent fragile ceasefire, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, nearly 70,000 people have been killed by ongoing Israeli attacks, with much of Gaza being destroyed.<\/p>\n

Later in 2025, the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> was severely disrupted by massive pro-Palestine protests, leading to several stages being partly suspended or altered and the final day’s stage being cancelled.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pro-Palestine protester in the 2025 Tour de France who broke onto the finishing straight at Toulouse at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-297804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}