Climate campaigners from the group Just Stop Oil are trying to disrupt flights at London's Heathrow and Germany's Cologne-Bonn airports as part of a coordinated campaign to stop extracting and burning fossil fuels by 2030.
The actions led to the arrest of nine activists at Heathrow Airport and the temporary grounding of Cologne-Bonn flights. Similar outages were reported in Spain and Switzerland. The protests prompted mixed reactions, with many calling for harsh legal consequences.
In light of recent sentences against other Stop Oil campaigners, those arrested at Heathrow may find the British justice system to be less tolerant than they have experienced before.
And in Germany…
This is a sample statement from one of the “protesters.”
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