Around 2,400 climate activists from the group Extinction Rebellion were temporarily arrested in The Hague. They had blocked the A12 motorway in the center of the city and refused to clear the expressway.
In The Hague in the Netherlands, police broke up a banned climate demonstration and temporarily arrested around 2,400 supporters of the group Extinction Rebellion (XR). According to the police, there were also numerous minors among them.
According to the ANP news agency, the demonstrators had been blocking the A12 in the center of The Hague since midday. They did not comply with requests to leave the expressway and hold their action not far from the main train station. Even the use of water cannons did not persuade the demonstrators to give up. They were then taken away by hundreds of officers and taken in buses to a stadium in The Hague. From there they were later released.
XR announces daily blockade
Extinction Rebellion announced that they wanted to block the highway every day until all government subsidies for fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas were eliminated in the Netherlands. The group accuses the government of failing to keep a promise to eliminate tax breaks and other forms of subsidies for aviation, shipping, fossil fuel power generation and oil production.