Greta Thunberg is arrested during a protest in the Netherlands

Climate activist Greta Thunberg Dutch police arrested on Saturday during a protest in The Hague Against fossil fuel subsidies.

Thunberg and other protesters from the environmental group Extinction Revolution A news agency reporter said police were seen sitting on a bus while police made more arrests. France Press agency.

Thunberg previously joined Several hundred demonstrators Who walked from the center of The Hague to a field located next to the A12 motorway leading out of the city.

Dozens of police officers, some on horseback, prevented the group from reaching the highway.

Carrying flags and banners that read:Stop fuel subsidies now!” And “The planet is dying!“, and the demonstrators engaged in a A tense confrontation with the policeWhich formed a human wall.

Some demonstrators found another way and closed another road near the highway linking the coastal city of The Hague to the central city of Utrecht.

“It is important that we show up today because we are living in a planetary emergencyThunberg declared France Press agency Before his arrest.

“We must do everything possible to avoid this crisis and save lives“he added.

Thunberg gained global fame for her “school climate strikes,” which began when she was 15 years old.

Last month, The Swedish police expelled her When you gather with other people in front of Swedish ParliamentIn Stockholm, one of the building's entrances was blocked.

According to the police, At least seven protesters were denounced. Although none of them were arrested, they were taken to police cars for questioning, Swedish Radio and Television reported. SVT.

A group of Fridays for Future activists, led by Thunberg, began a march to protest…The climate crisis and fundamental social injustice“, which”They kill people“.

“I think our laws protect the wrong things. “I believe our laws should be there to protect people's well-being and not corporations' right to pollute the planet,” the activist said.

For its part, the Fridays for Future movement, which gained notoriety thanks to the young Swedish woman, highlighted that parliament and society are “an essential part of democracy”, but so is “the right to demonstrate.”

(Information from Agence France-Presse and Europe Press)