101.   Teams were seen marking rocks in the minefield, planted hard up against the prison walls, with red paint.

102.   The French consulate in Amsterdam was also daubed with red paint in protest against the test, the first of several planned by Paris in the coming months.

103.   The legislation was inspired by publicity given last year to the case of a hedgehog whose spines fell out after it was plunged into a tin of red paint.