Local weather activist Greta Thunberg was detained by police at a big local weather demonstration in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Saturday.
Thunberg was initially detained and held for a short while by native police together with different protesters who tried to dam a serious freeway into The Hague.
After she was launched Thunberg shortly rejoined a small group of protesters who had been blocking a special highway resulting in the railway station. There, she was detained a second time and pushed off in a police van.
Earlier than she was detained Thunberg advised journalists she was protesting as a result of the world is dealing with an existential disaster. “We’re in a planetary emergency and we aren’t going to face by and let folks lose their lives and livelihood and be compelled to grow to be local weather refugees after we can do one thing,” she mentioned.
After being held for a number of hours she was launched once more within the night, a spokesperson for protest organizers Extinction Rise up advised Reuters.
Activists had been blocking a freeway
Activists had been attempting to dam the close by A12 freeway. That highway has been blocked for a number of hours dozens of occasions in current months by activists demanding an finish to all subsidies for the usage of fossil fuels.
At earlier protests police drove detained protesters to a different a part of city, the place they had been launched with out additional penalties.
Native police wouldn’t touch upon particular person circumstances however mentioned everybody who tried to dam roads was detained. On social media web site X, police posted that 412 protesters had been detained, largely for collaborating in a banned protest.
