Climate protesters face tear gas at TotalEnergies shareholder meeting in Paris

An environmental activist is pushed away by a police officer from the venue of the French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies’s annual shareholders’ meeting (AP)

French police have thrown a security cordon around a shareholders’ meeting in Paris of oil major TotalEnergies, spraying tear gas and pushing back climate protesters.

Shareholders, some escorted into the meeting by police, ran a gauntlet of the peaceful, earnest and mostly young demonstrators, who waved signs attacking the climate record of the French energy giant that has reaped colossal profits from price surges that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.