“The girl with the pearl”, “The Sunflowers”, “The millstones” and public buildings… Members of the environmental group Just Stop Oil spread orange paint on Monday in London on the facades of the Ministry of the Interior , MI5 (domestic intelligence), the Bank of England and the headquarters of the News Corp media group. “These buildings were chosen because they represent the pillars that sustain and sustain the power of the fossil fuel economy, government, security, finance and media,” Just Stop Oil said in a statement.
A total of six people were arrested, police said. “The age of fossil fuels should be long over, but the insidious ramifications of fossil fuel interests continue to corrupt our politics, government and the media as they have for decades,” a spokesperson said. of the group, which militates for the immediate stop of any new oil or gas project.
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Among the sites targeted on Monday is the London headquarters of News Corp, the American group of Australian tycoon Rupert Murdoch, which notably owns the reference daily in the United Kingdom. The Times and the tabloid The Sun.
The group’s British print shops were blocked in September 2020 by activists from the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion, disrupting the distribution of newspapers. Just Stop Oil has carried out a series of actions since the beginning of the month in the United Kingdom, where activists tarred the wax statue of King Charles at Madame Tussauds, threw tomato soup on the “Sunflowers” of Van Gogh at the National Gallery, or spray paint an Aston Martin dealership.