Members of environmental group Just Stop Oil threw orange paint on the facades of the Home Office, MI5 intelligence, the Bank of England and the headquarters of media group News Corp on Monday.
“These buildings were chosen because they represent the pillars of fossil fuel economy, government, defense, finance and media that sustain and maintain power,” Just Stop Oil said in a statement.
Police announced that six people had been arrested.
“The era of fossil fuels should have ended long ago, but the insidious shifts of fossil fuel interests have been corrupting our politics, our government and our media for decades,” said a spokesperson for the group. New Oil and Gas Project.
The London headquarters of News Corp, owned by Australian President Rupert Murdoch, and the American group that owns British newspaper The Times and tabloid The Sun were among the sites destroyed.
Since the beginning of the month, Just Stop Oil has been running a series of activities in the UK. Activists have already thrown cake and tomato soup at the wax effigy of King Charles III at Madame Tussauds. sunflower He spray-painted Van Gogh at the National Gallery and an Aston Martin dealership.
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