2023-04-17 19:54:02
Britain
Environmental activists interrupt a championship
These people, from the environmental group Just Stop Oil, interrupted a match at the World Snooker Championships on Monday.
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The activists are part of the environmental group Just Stop Oil.
Daniel LEAL / AFP
Environmental activists from the group Just Stop Oil interrupted a match at the World Snooker Championships in Sheffield (north England) on Monday.
Two activists burst into the playing area within the Crucible Theater in Sheffield shortly following a game started. One of them climbed onto one of the pool tables and dumped some kind of orange powder on it.
The other activist, who was regarding to do the same on another table where a second match was being played, was prevented from doing so by the referee.
“They demand that the government halt any new fossil fuel projects and call on UK sporting institutions to join the civil resistance once morest the government’s genocidal policies,” the group said in a statement.
Just Stop Oil has been multiplying for months the actions punches to demand the abandonment of the exploration of fossil fuels in the United Kingdom. It calls for “an indefinite campaign of civil resistance” from April 24.
Not the first action of the type
Six of its activists were sentenced at the end of March to suspended prison sentences or to community service for having disrupted the Formula 1 Grand Prix at Silverstone last year.
In February, five other activists who glued themselves to the frame of a painting depicting Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ at the Royal Academy of Arts were fined.
Last year, activists attacked Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, exhibited at the National Gallery in London, by spraying the work, protected by glass, with tomato soup.
(AFP)
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