June 23, 2003	Monday	Rabi-us-Sani 22,1424

MONTPELLIER (France), June 22: Police roused France’s anti-globalisation hero Jose Bove from his bed at dawn on Sunday 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.—AFP