Greta Thunberg was arrested at a protest outside an oil and gas conference – formerly known as the “Oil and Money” conference – at a luxury five-star hotel in London on Tuesday, eyewitnesses told CNN.
London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that several arrests had been made outside a hotel in London’s Park Lane. But it wouldn’t confirm to CNN that Thunberg was among those arrested.
We are choking from their fumes.” Greenpeace, which also attended the protest, said in a statement that hundreds of demonstrators, including Thunberg, “faced a heavy police presence as they gathered in front of the luxury Park Lane hotel to protest against the influence of the fossil fuel industry on UK and global climate politics.” The organization said that protestors had blocked all the entrances to the hotel from 8 a.m.
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