Protesters glued themselves together – NRK Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country
– Question time has been interrupted and there has been a demonstration in the gallery and something outside that the police handle, said press officer Gunnar Syverud in the Storting to NRK at 10.20.
The presidency quickly confirmed that it would take at least half an hour to get the protesters released.
The leader of the activist group, Vebjørn Bjelland Berg, also confirms that protesters have used glue.
The police in Oslo confirm at 10.25 that they were at the scene. There were also protesters outside the Storting
– We have just come and made contact. We have received slightly different reports on the number of demonstrators, but there are between 12 and 20 people, says operations manager Sven Christian Lie in the Oslo police district to NRK.
“Calm down!”
Parliamentary representative Mona Fagerås for the Socialist Left Party spoke when the protesters started the action by speaking in her mouth. On the broadcast you can hear it being said «Calm in the hall!».
The Storting’s Question Time is a meeting that is normally held every Wednesday, where the Storting representatives can ask questions to the ministers.
Activists associated with the Extinction Rebellion are taking action inside the Storting today, the organization confirmed.
– De was asked to go. It is entirely possible to take up what you have in your heart, but it is important to do it in the right way, says President of the Storting Masud Gharahkhani (Labor Party) to NRK.
– What happened?
– Now there are some who are visiting, and it is good that people are coming to listen to the debates. But in the middle of a question and answer session, there are some who get up and have their own agenda. Then we must right and end the meeting because it is not allowed to do it in a simple way. I think it’s a bit sad, because it means that when we have an open Storting, and many want to enter here, it means that we must have stronger security routines when people enter the Storting, says Gharahkhani.
Activists from Extinction Rebellion Ung
The protesters have sent out a press release in which they speak.
Activists from Extinction Rebellion Ung (XR’s youth organization) interrupt question time in the Storting with appeals to express fear of the climate crisis and disappointment that politicians are failing them, and to demand that politicians listen, the organization writes in a press release.
– We are young and many of us can not vote. Animals and plants can not vote. Billions of people in the global south cannot vote in Norway. And you kill them with your actions, says Susanne Rude Lone in her appeal.
Extinction Rebellion Ung writes that the activists have prepared for a smooth cell and risk tens of thousands of kroner in fines and prison sentences.
The Supreme Court recently increased the fines to demonstrate from the Extinction Rebellion, which was fined after an action in which they without warning the police were involved in stopping traffic for around 90 minutes on Ring 1 in Oslo on a Monday morning in 2020.