The Comité d'Action Viticole (Wine Action Committee) — commonly known as “wine terrorists” — claimed responsibility for pouring an estimated 5,000 to 13,000 gallons of red wine out of five giant vats owned by a local wine merchant and spilling them onto the Avenue du Maréchal-Juin, the French newspaper L’Express reported. The Wine Action Committee is suspected of hijacking five tankers filled with Spanish wine in April and pouring their contents – the equivalent of 90,000 bottles – down the drain. Spain is now the biggest wine exporter in the world and France is its best customer, having bought 172 million gallons of Spanish wine – 25 percent of Spain’s total exports – last year, according to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. The streets ran red in the Mediterranean port of Sète, France, Tuesday night after a suspected attack by a shadowy group of homegrown "terrorists." In recent years it has hijacked tankers of wine and dynamited government buildings and supermarkets, The Telegraph reported.

Source: Fox News August 04, 2016 19:07 UTC