Two Just Stop Oil environmental activists scaled a motorway bridge over the River Thames near London on Monday morning, causing major traffic jams days after other activists with the group dumped soup on the sunflowers by Van Gogh.
A climb over 80 meters high
At 5 am, these two men climbed more than 80 meters on one of the towers of the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, Just Stop Oil wrote in a press release.
The police confirmed that they had blocked traffic on this bridge on the capital’s ring road, through which approximately 160,000 vehicles circulate every day.
Just Stop Oil asks the government of Liz Truss to put an end to the exploitation of hydrocarbons in the country, exploitation that the Prime Minister has decided to speed up.
They denounce “suicidal laws” on oil
One of the activists, Morgan Trowland, posted a video of him on top of the bridge on this social network. “I’m ready to do this because I’m not ready to sit back and watch everything burn,” he says.
“Our government has put in place suicidal laws to speed up oil production, killing human lives and destroying our environment,” said the 39-year-old bridge design engineer.
“I can’t challenge this madness from my desk designing bridges, so I’m taking direct action,” he said.
The latest in a series of spectacular actions
This latest demonstration by Just Stop Oil is part of its series of actions initiated in early October against the exploitation of hydrocarbons.
On Sunday, activists from this group attacked a dealership of the luxury car brand Aston Martin in central London, spraying the window with orange paint.
On Friday, two activists attacked Van Gogh’s masterpiece the sunflowers in the National Gallery, spraying tomato soup on the painting protected by glass.
Faced with these recurring demonstrations, the government has decided to strengthen the powers of the police.
In a column published Sunday in Sunday’s mailThe Minister of the Interior, Suella Braverman, announced that the security law that is being examined in Parliament will grant new powers to the police to act more “proactively” against these groups, which she has already denounced in the past as acting as “guerrillas” .
Source: BFM TV
