Police use water cannon, detain 2,400 climate activists
Police use water cannon, detain 2,400 climate activists
Police deployed water cannon to disperse thousands of climate activists protesting on a highway in the Netherlands on Saturday to demand an end to government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/2541086
Archived version: https://archive.ph/cBBB1
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230909221319/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/police-use-water-cannon-climate-activists-block-dutch-highway-2023-09-09/
This is the best summary I could come up with:
THE HAGUE, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Police deployed water cannon to disperse thousands of climate activists protesting on a highway in the Netherlands on Saturday to demand an end to government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.
More than 10,000 people marched along the A12 highway into The Hague, ignoring warnings from authorities not to block the major traffic artery into the Dutch seat of government.
The police said in a statement they detained 2,400 protesters, including minors.
There were no reports of injuries.
Extinction Rebellion, which organised the event, has said it will continue to hold protests until the government of the Netherlands stops using public funds to subsidise the oil and gas industry.
"The seas are rising and so are we," chanted the crowd, which included children and the elderly.
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132 words to 132 words. Made me read the whole article while thinking I read a summary.
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Lolf
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Whoever wrote the article should be proud. Assuming they too are not a bot, that is.
Next stop- rubber bullets
There's no reason for them to step up to that point and also a weird and sad comment to make, this is the Netherlands.
Oh. Sorry. In America it would be rubber bullets, tear gas, then dogs.