DSwedish Fridays for Future activist Greta Thunberg was arrested twice in the Netherlands at a major climate protection rally. The 21-year-old took part in the blockade of one of the main roads in The Hague on Saturday along with other demonstrators. Police took her and other protesters into custody. She was taken to a detention van and abandoned elsewhere.
As the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported on Saturday, Thunberg reappeared at the protest rally following her initial arrest and was later taken into custody once more by the authorities. She was taken away following the first arrest. Police stopped the rally at midday, the newspaper reported. Some activists apparently left voluntarily on police orders, while another group was rounded up by officers and put on buses.
Thunberg recently accused Israel of “genocide”.
A police spokesman told the newspaper that arrested protesters would not be held for long but would be taken to another location. “The goal is to keep them off the streets. If they sit on it once more, they will be arrested once more and taken away.”
Dozens of police officers were deployed during the demonstration and blockade of the A12 motorway. Several hundred people reportedly took part in the blockade, which was called by activist group Extinction Rebellion. It is the 37th time that this highway has been occupied by activists. With the action, the group wanted to demonstrate once morest fossil subsidies from the European Union. Thunberg told AFP that it was “important to demonstrate today because we are living in a planetary state of emergency.”
Thunberg recently attracted attention because of her undifferentiated siding with the Palestinians in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Among other things, she accused Israel of genocide. Fridays for Future Germany then distanced itself from the Swede.
According to De Telegraaf, there were complaints from beach tent operators who criticized the traffic delays on the access roads to the coast.
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