On Monday, environmental group “Just Stop Oil” threw orange paint on the facades of the Home Office, the MI5 intelligence service, the Bank of England and the headquarters of News Corp, a media group.
“These buildings were chosen because they represent pillars that sustain and sustain the power of the fossil fuel economy, government, security, finance and the media,” Just Stop Oil said in a statement. Said.
Police announced that six people were detained.
“The era of fossil energies should have ended a long time ago, but the insidious consequences of fossil fuel interests continue to corrupt our politics, government and media for decades,” said a spokesperson for the group. new oil and gas project.
The London headquarters of News Corp, an American group owned by Australian businessman Rupert Murdoch, owner of British newspaper The Times and tabloid The Sun, are among the sites attacked.
Since the beginning of the month, “Just Stop Oil” has run a number of shows in the UK. Activists at Madame Tussauds. He knocked down a wax statue of Charles, sprinkled tomato soup on Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at the National Gallery, and spray-painted an Aston Martin dealer.
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