The arrest of thousands of environmental activists in The Hague/farmers’ protests reached the Netherlands

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, climate activists have once again blocked the highway passing through the Dutch city of The Hague during a protest. The Dutch police removed all the protesters from these lines on Saturday afternoon and bused them away. Police said around 1,000 people were arrested during the protests.

Public radio and television NOS reported that the clearing of the protests, which had been banned by the mayor, was due to protesters sticking together. The asphalt took a long time.

Last year, the climate activist group known as Extinction Rebellion tuhg blocked the A12 highway in The Hague dozens of times to ask the Netherlands to Eliminate government subsidies for fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas. The group accuses the government of not fulfilling its promise to eliminate tax breaks and other forms of subsidies for aviation, shipping, fossil fuel power generation, and oil production.

Rob Jetten, the current Dutch climate minister, wants to present proposals to the next government to reduce subsidies within a week. On Friday, he asked Extinction Rebellion to “be patient for a few days”. The government held.

These farmers’ protests have affected all of Europe – including Germany. In Hamburg, farmers’ demonstrations caused traffic chaos in late January. Farmers’ protests in Munich and Berlin also had a big impact. Large and similar protests were recently held in France, Greece, Italy, and Belgium.

Meanwhile, a video has been recorded in the Netherlands that shows the noise He raised a lot. Here, farmers express their displeasure with an unpopular campaign at an Aldi discount store.

This video was published on X (formerly Twitter). In this video, several protesters are seen standing in the parking lot of a supermarket. Meanwhile, the camera moves to the right, on a truck with a trailer. Protesting farmers sent a large amount of fertilizer to this branch of the store.

In this video a barrier made of large rubber tires – probably from a tractor – a plastic sheet Keeps black on the ground. Apparently, this route is supposed to send the smelly, brown fertilizer liquid to the Aldi market. At the end of the video, the successful strategy of the protesting farmers is shown.

German X users also sent this action in the text message service, and some expressed their opinion about the action of the farmers. they understood Some of them mistakenly assigned the protest of farmers, including the disgusting attack on the Aldi market, to France, where farmers are also protesting.

Whether it will prosecute farmers for any damage to their goods remains unclear. .

In recent days, farmers in France, Italy, Belgium, Greece and Austria have blocked many highways in continuation of their protests against the policies of the European Union and their governments.

Many farmers consider the provisions of the European Union to be just a sedative. They want immediate help and less bureaucracy. During the farmers’ revolt in Brussels, it was said that the EU imposes too many environmental and climate regulations and primarily subsidizes large agricultural businesses, leaving out small farmers.

The French authorities have given promises and concessions to this sector in order to reduce the anger of farmers.

The European Union Commission announced on Wednesday that it is possible He wants to intervene at least in the case of chicken, eggs and sugar and reimpose tariffs if the volume of imports of these agricultural products from Ukraine, which is criticized by farmers across Europe, exceeds the average imports of 2022 and 2023.

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