Mobile Unit started evacuating occupied University of Amsterdam building | inland
Dozens of students occupied part of the Binnengasthuis (a building of the University of Amsterdam) on Monday. They want the university to break ties with Shell. The Mobile Unit (ME) is in use around 8.15 pm to sweep the area around the occupied and clean.
The riot police sweeps the students away from the building with shields and batons. Some demonstrators have decided to continue demonstrating outside. Meanwhile, the Fire and Tear Gas Unit (BraTra) is busy breaking down the barricaded door and singing the demonstrations in unison We are peaceful, what are you?
According to a spokesman for the activists, activists have holed up in the building of the former Academic Club. “They are not forthcoming at the moment.” According to the statement, some up to eighty people are still demonstrating outside the building and do not intend to leave. “We want to show solidarity with those inside.”
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The students have occupied the former Academic Club, part of the Binnengasthuis on Oudezijds Achterburgwal, since Monday afternoon. They are part of a broad alliance (including University Rebellion and Mokum Kraakt) that wants the university to end its collaboration with Shell.
The UvA had previously stated that it was not against demonstrations and actions in principle, but that it would not allow occupations. “Peaceful actions to draw attention to concerns about the environment are understandable,” said Jan Lintsen, Vice President of the Executive Board. “I worry about it myself. And protesting and demonstrating is allowed, even within the walls of the university, but occupying is never allowed.” According to a statement from the UvA, the board of the university has reported a trespassing.
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