Two activists attached themselves to the rugby posts at a Top14 match in France, forcing the game to be stopped. The video of the incident has been watched an astonishing 5 million times this week.
Just 14 minutes had been played between Stade Francais and Toulouse when the men scaled the uprights and secured themselves with cable ties.
Officials attempted to get the men to come down by grabbing their feet and shaking them, their T-shirts read "Le 49.3 tue", which translates to "49.3 kills".
More security people arrived on the scene with a ladder and got one of the men down. As one of them was being escorted from the field, the front of his T-shirt read "WE HAVE 872 DAYS LEFT".
Toulouse head coach Ugo Mola voiced his opinion on the incident in his post-match interview with Canal+, saying: "I thought rugby wasn't political but some people have appropriated it".
A clip of the incident has fast become the most watched rugby video on TikTok, with almost 5 million views in five days.
It is assumed the act is in reference to Article 49.3 of the French Government.
It allows for the government to force legislation through Parliament without a vote, and was recently triggered twice within 24 hours, reports Le Monde .
The organisation believed to be responsible for the act is Dernière Rénovation. They have performed a number of protests in recent times which includes a young woman tying herself to the net in The French Open in June this year.
Her T-shirt also read something similar, "WE HAVE 1028 DAYS LEFT". Explaining their actions on Twitter after the tennis incident, they said they wanted to "draw attention to the climate emergency", reported The Mirror.
The "days left" is explained on their website . "What we do in the next 2 or 3 years will largely determine the fate of humanity," it reads.
"If we don't start taking real action now, then within a few hundred days our collective future will be out of our hands. It will depend on climatic phenomena over which we will no longer have any control, and which will destroy billions of lives and forever upset all those of the next generations."
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