Climate activist Greta Thunberg detained twice at Dutch protest
Al Jazeera
The demonstration was organised to protest against fossil fuel subsidies in the Netherlands.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained twice by police at a demonstration in the Netherlands, after she and a group of marchers blocked a main road to protest against fossil fuel subsidies.
Thunberg was initially detained by local police and held for a short time on Saturday along with other protesters who tried to block a major highway into The Hague.
After being released, she quickly rejoined a small group of protesters who were blocking a different road leading to the railway station. There, she was detained a second time and driven off in a police van.
Thunberg had joined hundreds of protesters on a march from The Hague’s city centre to the nearby A12 arterial highway that connects the seat of the Dutch government with other cities including Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht.
The march was organised by the Extinction Rebellion (XR) environmental group and was part of a plan to pressure the Dutch government in the run-up to another planned debate about fossil subsidies in June.
