Editing José Bové (section)

== Civil disobedience ==

In 1976, Bové was sentenced and served three weeks of imprisonment for having destroyed documents belonging to the military, when opposing extension of [[Larzac]] military camp.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Biographie José Bové|url=http://www.lepoint.fr/content/presidentielle2007/article?id=113464|magazine=Le Point|language=fr|access-date=2007-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080104201005/http://www.lepoint.fr/content/presidentielle2007/article?id=113464|archive-date=2008-01-04|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2002, Bové was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for his role in the 1999 destruction (he and his party dismantled the building during one night) of a McDonald's franchise in Millau, Aveyron. He served 44 days and was released on 1 August 2002.

On 22 June 2003 Bové began serving a sentence of ten months for the destruction of transgenic crops. [[ATTAC]] protested and called for him to be freed. A general pardon of prisoners issued for [[Bastille Day]], together with an individual action in his case by President [[Jacques Chirac]], reduced the sentence to seven months. Both supporters and opponents expressed dissatisfaction with the Presidential pardon, saying that it was entirely inadequate and wholly unjustified, respectively. On 15 November 2005, the [[Toulouse]] court of appeals sentenced Bové to 4 months in jail for having destroyed genetically engineered corn from a field. Other defendants, such as [[Noël Mamère]], got suspended sentences.<ref>{{cite web |author=e-TF1 |url=http://news.tf1.fr/news/france/0,,3263244,00.html |title=Infos en direct et en vidéo, l'actualité en temps réel - tf1.fr |publisher=News.tf1.fr |access-date=2010-06-13 }} {{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In February 2006, Bové was stopped at entry by [[U.S. Customs and Border Protection]] agents at New York's [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|JFK Airport]]. He was traveling to [[Cornell University]]'s School of Industrial and Labor Relations for events sponsored by Cornell's Global Labor Institute.  According to Bové, the Customs agents told him he was "ineligible" to enter the U.S. due to his past prosecutions for "moral crimes." After being detained for several hours, Bové was placed on an [[Air France]] flight to Paris.<ref name="notwelcome"/>

On 11 October 2016, Bové was denied entry to Canada because of his convictions related to protests, notably against McDonald's.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/201610/11/01-5029427-le-depute-europeen-jose-bove-interdit-dentrer-au-canada.php|title=Le député européen José Bové interdit d'entrer au Canada |first1=Marie-Claude|last1=Lortie|first2=Louis-Samuel|last2=Perron|newspaper=La Presse|language=fr-CA|access-date=12 October 2016}}</ref> He was subsequently allowed to stay in the country for seven days.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/201610/12/01-5029650-jose-bove-pourra-rester-au-canada-sept-jours.php|title=José Bové pourra rester au Canada sept jours |first=Julien|last=Arsenault|newspaper=La Presse|language=fr-CA|access-date=12 October 2016}}</ref>