2023-10-05 22:38:59
Five environmental activists from the group Just Stop Oil were charged Thursday evening with ‘aggravated trespass’ following interrupting a performance of the musical ‘Les Misérables’ in London the day before. The show did not resume following its interruption.
Several people burst onto the scene. ‘Quickly on the scene’, police arrested five people aged 18 to 28, who were released following being charged, according to a statement from Scotland Yard, which is keen to hear from members of the public who had come from far away to attend. the representation.
According to a press release from Just Stop Oil, four activists took the stage when the actors sang the protest song ‘Do You Hear The People Sing?’, one of the most famous in the musical. They then chained themselves to the stage with bicycle locks, the group reported.
Booed by the public
‘Just like the revolutionaries in this story, [les militants] call to take a stand once morest the government’s criminal plans to deplete our oil and gas reserves and to join civil resistance once morest new fossil fuels,’ he adds. The activists were booed by the audience at the Sondheim Theater. The show did not resume following its interruption.
‘In accordance with our security protocols, the audience was asked to leave the venue and the Metropolitan Police attended,’ said the managing director of Delfont Mackintosh Theaters, which owns the Sondheim Theatre.
Activists criticize the British government’s approval to exploit the Rosebank oil and gas field in the North Sea, just days following London postponed the ban on the sale of new thermal cars to 2035 and pushed back the ban oil, LPG or coal boilers.
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