The Netherlands Police arrested the climate activist this Saturday Greta Thunberg while participating in a environmental protest who tried to block, without success, a highway in a section of access to The Hague, and in which a hundred people participated.

The police forcibly removed Thunberg after she refused to leave the road voluntarily: two officers grabbed her by the arms and put her on a bus where they placed other protesters, while those who remained sitting on the road chanted “you are not alone” in English to the Swedish activist, according to the videos broadcast by the Dutch press.

Thunberg was one of the first concentrated people that the Police removed from the road, in a protest called by the environmental organization Extinction Rebellion, which has been calling for protests in the Netherlands for months. against fossil fuel subsidies and climate policies of the Dutch Government, currently in office.

Extinction Rebellion has explained on the social network separately guarded Thunbergand has assured that, once on the bus, the rest of the protesters were separated from the protest site and “immediately released.”

This Saturday’s concentration was intended cut the access section to The Hague of the highway A12, which connects the Dutch capital with the German border, but the Police prevented the protesters, arriving on foot from the city center, from even reaching that main road. Security forces were deployed preventively, including agents on horseback, in the vicinity of an underground tunnel from which climate activists intended to take the highway, according to Dutch media.

Behind the frustrated attempt to block the highway, a group of about 100 activists sat on a road near the tunnel and that was when the Police surrounded them with a security cordon and began to remove them from the road and make arrests, including that of Thunberg, to put them on buses and move them out of the highway area. The Police have commented, through the social network X, that the road blockade was not authorized by The Hague City Council.

Greta Thunberg, 21, became world famous in 2018 when, as a high school student, she decided to protest in front of the Swedish Parliament on Fridays of each week to demand action to tackle the climate crisis, in an action that was followed months later by thousands of young people around the world and served to boost the global ‘Fridays for Future’ movement.

Swedish justice sentenced Thunberg twice last year to pay fines for public disorder in climate protests he attended and a British judge dropped the charges on February 2 against her and other environmentalists for public disorder during a demonstration against fossil fuels in London in which they were arrested, considering that the police applied “illegal” conditions when making the arrests.