Greta Thunberg was chanting songs with the group as they initially got here to an abrupt cease.

The Hague:

Local weather activist Greta Thunberg was detained by Dutch police on Saturday after she and a bunch of marchers blocked a essential street in The Hague to protest towards fossil gasoline subsidies.

Thunberg and different protesters of the Extinction Insurrection environmental group had been seen sitting in a ready bus, whereas police had been persevering with to make arrests, an AFP correspondent mentioned.

Thunberg earlier joined a number of hundred protesters as they walked from the Dutch metropolis centre to a subject subsequent to the A12 arterial freeway main out of the town.

The freeway was the scene of earlier protests by Extinction Insurrection with activists closing it off from site visitors earlier than police deployed water weapons and made arrests.

However on Saturday dozens of cops, together with some on horseback, blocked the group from getting into the freeway, warning that “violence could possibly be used” ought to the marchers attempt to get onto the street.

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Carrying XR flags and placards saying “Cease gasoline subsidies now!” and “The planet is dying!”, protesters had been then locked in a tense standoff with police who shaped a wall of regulation enforcement.

Some protesters then discovered one other route and blocked a essential street near the freeway — which leads from the seaside metropolis of The Hague to the central metropolis of Utrecht.

Thunberg, wearing a gray prime, black trousers and blue footwear, joined the group at the beginning and was chanting songs with the group as they initially got here to an abrupt cease.

“It is essential to display immediately as a result of we live in a state of planetary emergency,” Thunberg instructed AFP as police blocked marchers.

“We should do every part to keep away from that disaster and to save lots of human lives,” she mentioned.

At the least one protester was arrested earlier and dragged away to a ready police van, an AFP correspondent noticed.

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Requested whether or not she was involved about police motion and arrest, Thunberg mentioned: “Why ought to I be?”

Activists mentioned that regardless of majority backing by the Dutch parliament in addition to broad widespread assist to slash fossil gasoline subsidies, “the plans won’t be carried out earlier than 2030, and even 2035”.

“In the meantime the ecological disaster continues to rage and the nation’s outgoing cupboard pretends that now we have on a regular basis on this planet, whereas the disaster is now,” XR mentioned in a press release posted on X, previously Twitter.

The protest, added XR, was a part of a plan to stress the Dutch authorities forward of one other deliberate debate about fossil subsidies in June.

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