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 'Les Deboulonneurs' Protesters Graffiti Slogans On French Billboards Published: Feb 4, 09 Views: 2,517 ‘Collectif des Déboulonneurs’ is a guerrilla anti-advertising group in France that protests the in-your-face pervasiveness of outdoor public billboards and posters. ‘Les Déboulonneurs’ roughly translates to ‘dismantlers,’ according to the BBC, and their modus operandi is to graffiti anti-advertising slogans atop public billboards. What’s more, they often tip law enforcement officers off to their location so that they’re arrested—a move that’s perhaps more appropriate for the paparazzi than the police. Be sure to check out the video above (it’s all in French, but the video will give you the gist), and for more images, click through the Flickr set below.  "We infringe the law in a very symbolic way, in a manner that's open and assumed," deboulonneur Arthur Lutz told BBC World Service's Culture Shock programme.
"We do it in the public space so that we get out the meaning of what action is going to take place. To change the law we need to provoke a debate on the place of advertising in our society."
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