2023-09-09 19:52:00
The police said on Saturday that there were also numerous minors among them. It was the group’s eighth blockade of the A12 motorway.
Elsewhere in The Hague, the country’s seat of government and parliament, climate activists were able to protest unhindered on Saturday. The police said they used water cannons on Saturday to drive the XR supporters off the highway. They had previously been called upon to hold their demonstration near the main train station in The Hague, where this was legal, an authority spokesman said. Neither this nor the use of water cannons might get the demonstrators to leave. Hundreds of officers then led them away. They were taken on buses to a stadium in The Hague and later released.
According to its own information, XR wants to block the motorway daily in the future until all government subsidies for fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas are eliminated in the Netherlands. The group accuses the government of failing to keep a promise to eliminate tax breaks and other forms of subsidies for aviation, shipping, fossil fuel power generation and oil production.
The Hague police chief Karin Krukkert accused the XR organizers of provoking the arrests to get more attention. In this way, the police are prevented from responding to emergencies and solving crimes. During a similar protest by XR on the A12 at the end of May, almost 1,600 demonstrators were temporarily arrested.
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