Police Make Indiscriminate Mass Arrests
At around 3.15pm the police charged into the march near to where the
CJA System Change not Climate Change group had joined the march, as
well as people from the NTAC called demonstration who had been sent
there earlier by the police from their gathering place in central
Copenhagen. The police cut off about a thousand people including many
who were marching as part of
Libertarian Socialist bloc. By 5pm several hundred had been handcuffed and made to
sit on the floor, where they remained in the cold for hours. [Pics
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The police's press office reported that those arrested are between
700-900 people, later revised to close to one thousand. See
CJA Press Release, of these only three were eventually charged with anything.
Following the enormous mass arrests of climate protestors, accounts are emerging
of the poor conditions within the specially set up detention
facilities, with people handcuffed for up to eight hours following
their lengthy detention upon the streets. Despite this obvious
repression climate campaigners remain determined to push the message
that we need System Change not climate change.
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