More than 100 arrested at London climate protests
Majority arrested for breaching public order laws and obstructing highwayLONDON: More than 100 people have been arrested in ongoing climate change protests in London that brought parts of the British capital to a standstill, police said on Tuesday. Thousands of UK kids skip school for climate protestsLondon’s Metropolitan Police said that by early Tuesday 113 adults had been arrested. The figure includes three men and two women who were arrested at the UK offices of energy giant Royal Dutch Shell on suspicion of criminal damage. The protest saw more than a thousand people block off central London’s Waterloo Bridge and lay trees in pots along its length. People were arrested “mostly at Waterloo Bridge where the police came to try to stop everyone, but there were too many of us”, he told AFP.
Source: The Express Tribune April 16, 2019 10:30 UTC
