Three activists from the environmental group Just Stop Oil, who briefly disrupted a cricket match in late June in London by entering the field, were found guilty Thursday by British courts of “aggravated burglary“.

These three activists, two men aged 21 and 27 and a 69-year-old woman, will be sentenced on October 24. During a match between England and Australia at Lord’s Cricket Ground, the temple of the sport, two activists entered the field and threw orange dust. One of them had been taken off the field by English goalkeeper Jonny Bairstow. A third was prevented from accessing the field. The Just Stop Oil group, accustomed to forceful actions of this type, is calling on the British government to suspend any new gas or oil projects in the United Kingdom. Several of its activists have already been sentenced by the courts, including prison sentences. “As soon as you have passed the barrier, you have passed the ticket area that was given to you.“Judge Neeta Minhas told the defendants. She criticized them for “proactively introduced onto private property that was a playground“and to have”interrupted or intended to interrupt a legal activity“. The judge found the three activists guilty of “aggravated burglary“At the end of July, the British government promised “hundreds“new licenses for the exploration and exploitation of oil and gas in the North Sea, which made environmental organizations tremble. Last week, Rishi Sunak announced the postponement of several emblematic measures of the United Kingdom’s climate policy.