Copenhagen, Sep 4 (EFE).- Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg was arrested on Wednesday during a protest in Copenhagen against the war in Gaza and the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
The Ekstra Bladet newspaper published a photo showing Thunberg in handcuffs in front of a building at the University of Copenhagen, which was occupied by several activists from the Students Against the Occupation group.
“Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been arrested at our action, calling for academic boycott,” the student group said in a post on Instagram.
“She has now been taken to the police station. The police, not long after we entered the building, forced their power upon us for taking action against our university’s complicity in the war crimes that Israel commits in Gaza and the West Bank,” it added.
The police of the Danish capital said in a statement that, on Wednesday morning, it detained six protesters who briefly blocked the entrance to the buildings of the University of Copenhagen.
Charges have been filed against the six people for trespassing, the police added.
“Students Against the Occupation and I are at the University of Copenhagen’s administration building,” Thunberg wrote on her Instagram account along with a video.
In recent months, the founder of the Fridays for Future (FFF) climate movement has shown her support for the Palestinian cause and her opposition to Israel’s actions after the Hamas attacks in October last year.
“When UN experts call upon the world to act to prevent a genocide, as fellow humans, we have a responsibility to speak out. Demanding an end to this inexcusable violence is a question of basic humanity, and we call on everyone who can to do so. Silence is complicity. You cannot be neutral in an unfolding genocide,” she wrote in an article in December.
Thunberg has worn the traditional black and white Palestinian headscarf in several recent demonstrations, including the one in Sweden’s Malmo city in May against Israel’s participation in this year’s Eurovision song contest. EFE
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