Greta Thunberg Temporarily Detained During Pro-Palestinian Protest in Copenhagen

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                Keystone-SDA | Wednesday, September 4, 2024
            </p></div><div id="carNewsDetail" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel" data-interval="false"><div class="carousel-inner"><div class="carousel-item  active"><img class="img-fluid" title="ARCHIVE - Greta Thunberg, climate activist from Sweden, is carried away by the police after participating in a Storm Warning demonstration by Extinction Rebellion. Photo: Mikko Stig/Lehtikuva/dpa" src="https://www.sarganserlaender.ch/sda/_processed_/c/8/csm_20240904105100456_deac4ebacc.jpg" width="1100" height="619" alt="20240904105100456.jpg"/><div class="caption">
                                                        ARCHIVE - Greta Thunberg, climate activist from Sweden, is carried away by the police after participating in a Storm Warning demonstration by Extinction Rebellion. Photo: Mikko Stig/Lehtikuva/dpa

                                                            <p class="media-source">Source: Keystone/Lehtikuva/Mikko Stig</p></div></div><div class="carousel-item  "><img class="img-fluid" title="ARCHIVE - Greta Thunberg, climate activist from Sweden, is carried away by the police after participating in a Storm Warning demonstration by Extinction Rebellion. Photo: Mikko Stig/Lehtikuva/dpa" src="https://www.sarganserlaender.ch/sda/_processed_/6/9/csm_20240904144244749_0a7709e8a7.jpg" width="1100" height="619" alt="20240904144244749.jpg"/><div class="caption">
                                                        ARCHIVE - Greta Thunberg, climate activist from Sweden, is carried away by the police after participating in a Storm Warning demonstration by Extinction Rebellion. Photo: Mikko Stig/Lehtikuva/dpa

                                                            <p class="media-source">Source: Keystone/Lehtikuva/Mikko Stig</p></div></div><a class="carousel-control-prev" href="#carNewsDetail" role="button" data-slide="prev"><span class="carousel-control-prev-icon" aria-hidden="true"/><span class="sr-only">Previous</span></a><a class="carousel-control-next" href="#carNewsDetail" role="button" data-slide="next"><span class="carousel-control-next-icon" aria-hidden="true"/><span class="sr-only">Next</span></a></div></div></div><div itemprop="articleBody"><div class="lead" itemprop="description"><p>Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was temporarily arrested during a pro-Palestinian protest in the Danish capital, Copenhagen.</p></div><p>Photos from the newspapers "Politiken" and "Ekstra Bladet," as well as a video from the event organizers on Instagram, showed the 21-year-old being led away by police in front of a university building. She was wearing a Palestinian scarf around her neck. "You are not alone!" her supporters repeatedly yelled to her.</p><p>The Copenhagen police reported the arrest of six demonstrators without confirming or denying that Thunberg was among them. Those arrested are accused of trespassing, the police wrote on the online platform X.</p><p>A video later shown by "Ekstra Bladet" showed the young Swede being released from the Bellahøj police station in northwestern Copenhagen. She did not want to answer questions from a reporter at the paper.</p><p>Thunberg herself shared videos of the protest on her Instagram story in front of an administrative building of Copenhagen University (KU). She wrote that the protest was held because the university had not responded to demands, including a call for an institutional academic boycott.</p><p>By this, she meant that KU should cease all cooperation with Israeli universities due to the Gaza war.</p><p>The university has long been urged by the group Studerende mod Besættelsen (Students Against the Occupation), which organized the protest action. The university's administrative and museum buildings are located in the city center of Copenhagen, very close to the Great Synagogue of the city.</p><p>Thunberg frequently participates in Palestinian protests</p><p>Greta Thunberg became world-famous for her "school strike for the climate." From her once solitary protest action, the international climate movement Fridays for Future has emerged.</p><p>Since the beginning of the Gaza war in October 2023, the Swede has repeatedly used her reach on social networks to draw attention to the devastating situation of the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip.</p><p>Thunberg has been arrested multiple times at demonstrations in various countries, primarily at climate protests. In May, she was also carried away by police at a rally against Israel's participation at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, southern Sweden.</p></div>

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