The police proceeded to dozens of arrests as he cleared two bridges of London by protesters of the eradication of the eradication. The last of the protesters moved from the Lambeth and Vauxhall bridges after being blocked from traffic for several hours, while several protesters were removed by police van. The force wrote on Twitter: “Both demonstrations in the Vauxhall area are now complete and the streets are open again. “As a result of today’s police operation, we made 38 arrests.”
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The Met said earlier that officers had encouraged protesters to leave the Lambeth Bridge as the action “caused serious disturbances by blocking the bridge”. It comes after hundreds of protesters gathered at the Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park before passing through the city center and split to “occupy” the Lambeth and Vauxhall bridges, where they blocked the passage of vehicles. Crowds sat in the middle of the street, waving colorful flags bearing the group’s “disappearance” symbol and placards reading “there is no planet B” and “we want to live” before the majority left the stage. Met police officers warned the remaining protesters that they caused a “serious disruption” to the public and faced the arrest. Earlier, police said protesters had closed both bridges, which are major thoroughfares in the Thames. However, protesters allowed ambulances and fire trucks to pass, with organizers dispersing the crowd shouting “blue light”. Kiri Ley, a 21-year-old activist and student from Birmingham, said the group was occupying the capital peacefully to try to force the government to make a change when nothing else worked. He told the PA news agency: “I know that very often people question our tactics about disturbing, for example, ordinary people, things like roadblocks, sticking, locking, and so on. “What I would ask people, if you make this criticism, is what do you actually suggest we do? “We have tried all the other methods – we have written letters, we have made progress, we have talked to our Members, we have done literally what we could and again and again we see them doing the exact opposite of what the scientific evidence says and that is what “We really have to do it because we know it works.” A protester of the disappearance uprising / ΠΑ Earlier, activists spray-painted red hands outside the corporate offices of oil service company Schlumberger in London. It comes a day after about 8,000 protesters flooded the streets of London, according to the Extinction Rebellion. On the first day of mass action on Saturday, streets were blocked around Oxford Circus and Trafalgar Square. Extinction Rebellion has vowed to “block areas of the city for as long as possible” every day for at least a week and over the next three weekends. On Friday, two Extinction Rebellion protesters closed the Tower Bridge Bridge during rush hour, exiting the sides of the landmark.
