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Well, according to his write-up for The Guardian, this.
I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand - all power to him for trying, and being very hard to intimidate. And I can't fault the cause he was trying to attract publicity for.
On the other hand, he turned up alone in France and was surprised to run into problems because he couldn't speak much French, had no contacts in the French media, and appears to have not considered to possibility that the French police might put him under suveillance. The execution of his protest seems to have been rather incompetent and badly planned - fair enough if any of us had done it, but Peter Tatchell's hardly new to this game.
And I love:
Up to the time I arrived, Mugabe's visit wasn't really an issue in France.
...because the way he phrases it makes it sound to me as though his arrival changed this, which I can find no evidence for, either in his article or elsewhere.
But, all the same, I admire that he followed his convictions, and even being able to write 'I haven't experienced such heavy-handed policing since I staged a gay rights protest in communist east Berlin in 1973' gets him some automatic respect points.
I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand - all power to him for trying, and being very hard to intimidate. And I can't fault the cause he was trying to attract publicity for.
On the other hand, he turned up alone in France and was surprised to run into problems because he couldn't speak much French, had no contacts in the French media, and appears to have not considered to possibility that the French police might put him under suveillance. The execution of his protest seems to have been rather incompetent and badly planned - fair enough if any of us had done it, but Peter Tatchell's hardly new to this game.
And I love:
Up to the time I arrived, Mugabe's visit wasn't really an issue in France.
...because the way he phrases it makes it sound to me as though his arrival changed this, which I can find no evidence for, either in his article or elsewhere.
But, all the same, I admire that he followed his convictions, and even being able to write 'I haven't experienced such heavy-handed policing since I staged a gay rights protest in communist east Berlin in 1973' gets him some automatic respect points.
