Police disintegrated climate change only an hour after it began
10 DAY DEMONSTRATION Extinction Rebellion started in Helsinki on Wednesday. The Finnish police broke up only an hour after it started.
Estimates suggest that several hundred people gathered for a demonstration on Mannerheimintie outside the Parliament House on Wednesday at 6 p.m. However, officials from the Helsinki Police Department considered the demonstration illegal due to the significant and long-term traffic disruption it caused and began to arrest the participants.
According to the latest press release, 141 people were arrested.
Extinction Rebellion Finland tweeted at about 10.30 pm that the demonstration would continue outside the parliament building. A few dozen protesters remained on the scene an hour earlier Jarmo Heinonen, Senior Inspector of the Helsinki Police Department.
“The idea is that no demonstration stays here and people slowly start to go in the direction they want,” he says. said Helsingin Sanomat.
The aim of the demonstration was to force the government to declare a climate emergency and take the necessary action without delay. Lauri AutereExtinction Rebellion Finland’s Director of Media and Public Relations told STT that the demonstration will continue as soon as possible.
“We’re weighing our options, but the idea is we’re definitely going back to the site,” he said.
The police will respond if necessary, Heinonen replied. “It’s treated differently, in a different situation.”
Aleksi Teivainen – HT