June 23, 2003 4:24am
Police roused France's anti-globalisation hero Jose Bove from his bed at dawn and whisked him away to prison to begin a 10-month sentence for helping destroy genetically modified crops, police said.
They said a helicopter airlifted Bove, the controversial figurehead of France's radical farmers' union, the Peasant's Confederation, from his farm at Millau in southern France straight to a prison near Montpellier.
"We picked him up as he slept," one police officer told AFP. "That surprised him. He didn't look triumphant."
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