15 May 2006,
Hundreds of people in France supported 49 entrepreneurs who cut genetically modified maize fields. They were part of the Faucheurs Volontaires group and were tried before the Court of Orleans. Despite being acquitted for this cause in 2004 and 2005, the multinational Monsanto appealed and came to trial. The group used the trial to denounce experiments on genetically modified departments.
Source:
José Bové and Gilles Luneau, For Civic Disobedience.