Concentration this Saturday intended cut off the access section to The Hague of the A12 motorwaywhich connects the Dutch capital to the German border, but police prevented protesters who arrived on foot from the city center from even reaching this main road.

According to Dutch media, security forces were preemptively stationed, including agents on horseback, near the tunnel from which the climate activists intended to exit onto the highway.

After an unsuccessful attempt to block the highway A group of about a hundred activists sat on the road near the tunnel when police surrounded them with a security cordon and began removing them from the street and making arrests.including Thunberg, put them on buses and take them off the highway.

The police commented on the situation via social networks. Xthat the road blockade was not authorized by The Hague City Council.

Greta ThunbergThe 21-year-old became world famous in 2018 when, as a high school student, she decided protest in front of the Swedish parliament every Friday demanding action to end the climate crisisin an action that was followed a few months later by thousands of young people from all over the world, and which served to advance the global movement “Fridays for the Future”

Last year, Swedish justice sentenced Thunberg to prison twice. pay fines for public disorder during climate protests which he attended.

On February 2, a British judge dropped charges against Thunberg and other environmentalists for public disorder during an anti-fossil fuel demonstration in London during which they were arrested, finding that police then applied “unlawful” conditions to the arrests.

EFE