She was arrested twice on Saturday by police at a demonstration in The Hague, Netherlands.
The climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained twice on Saturday by police at a demonstration in The Hague, Netherlands.
Thunberg was initially detained and briefly detained by local police along with other protesters who were attempting to block a major access highway to The Hague.
After being released, Thunberg quickly joined a small group of protesters blocking another road leading to the train station. There she was arrested a second time and taken away in a police van.
The activists had attempted to block the nearby A12 motorway. That road has been blocked for several hours dozens of times in recent months by activists demanding an end to all subsidies for the use of fossil fuels.
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Police arrest Greta Thunberg
In previous protests, police led detained protesters to another part of the city, where they were released without further consequences.
Local police did not want to comment on specific cases, but said that all those who tried to block roads were arrested. Police spokeswoman Marieke Maas said she could not say how many people had been arrested. (Reporting by Stephanie van der Berg and Piroschka van der Wouw; Writing by Bart Meijer; Edited in Spanish by Manuel Farías)
Source: Ambito
