Climate activist Thunberg has been using her platform for some time to draw attention to the situation of the Palestinians. She has now been arrested again in Denmark.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was arrested during a pro-Palestinian protest in the Danish capital Copenhagen. Photos from the newspapers “Politiken” and “Ekstra Bladet” as well as a video posted by the organizers of the action on Instagram showed the 21-year-old being led away by police officers in front of a university building. She was wearing a Palestinian scarf around her neck. “You are not alone!” her fellow activists repeatedly shouted to her.
Copenhagen police reported the arrest of six demonstrators, without confirming or denying that Thunberg was among them. The arrested people are accused of trespassing, the police wrote on the online platform X.
Thunberg herself shared videos of the protest in front of an administrative building of the University of Copenhagen (KU) in her Instagram story. She wrote that the protest was because the university had not responded to demands, including an institutional academic boycott. By this she meant that the KU had to stop all cooperation with Israeli universities because of the Gaza war.
The university has long been called upon to do this by the group Studerende mod Besættelsen (Students Against the Occupation), which organized the protest. The university’s administrative and museum buildings are located in the city center of Copenhagen, in the immediate vicinity of the city’s Great Synagogue.
Thunberg repeatedly takes part in Palestinian protests
Greta Thunberg has become world famous through her “school strike for the climate”. Her once lonely protest action gave rise to the international climate movement Fridays for Future. Since the beginning of the Gaza war in October 2023, the Swede has also repeatedly used her reach on social networks to draw attention to the devastating situation of the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip.
Thunberg has been arrested several times at demonstrations in various countries, primarily at climate protests. In May, she was also taken away by police at a rally against Israel’s participation on the sidelines of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, southern Sweden.
Source: Stern
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