Greta Thunberg was arrested during a demonstration against the lack of action to address climate change in The Hague. Along with other activists, Greta had participated in blocking a highway. The twenty-one-year-old was dragged away by Dutch officers - who intervened to disperse the picket of environmentalists lined up to block one of the main arteries of The Hague - and taken into a van along with other protesters stopped by the law enforcement, then escorted to the police station.
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The Protest
The Swede, reached by phone by the Dutch news agency Anp, wanted to reiterate her message in The Hague: «For decades it has been promised to act» against fossil fuel subsidies and «this does not happen, let's see if it will work now», she said. The action of Extinction Rebellion was called to protest against the environmental policies of the Dutch government. This is the thirty-seventh time that protesters have tried to block the A12.
Shortly after two in the afternoon, officers had announced with megaphones the intention to end the action, warning that anyone who did not move away on their own initiative would be taken away. The stopped protesters were applauded by other activists - a hundred in total - still present in the area with flags and banners with the slogans 'Stop fossil subsidies!'. Last week, during a similar protest in Amsterdam, 25 people were arrested.
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