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Parisians who found themselves in court last week, accused of vandalism and damaging the image and ad revenues of the city’s transport authority for allegedly defacing ads in the Metro. In recent weeks a seemingly coordinated effort has left practically no Metro ad unscathed. Fliers handed out by protesters outside the courtroom claimed the uprising is part of an anti-capitalist movement by “teachers, the unemployed, researchers, freelance arts workers, health workers, archaeologists, marginals, civil servants, students and architects.”