The demonstration of the Extinction Rebellion movement which had taken place so far in calm in the center of Brussels has now taken another turn Saturday late afternoon when the activists decided to take the direction of the rue de the Law after renaming the Tour des Finances to Resilience Tower.
The activists had already carried out two actions earlier in the afternoon, which had taken place without incidents, both at the Stock Exchange and at rue Neuve, where the activists had frozen for five minutes while wearing their placards. The demonstration was to end at the bottom of the Tour des Finances, whose letters making up the word ‘Finance’ had been removed earlier in the week in order to replace them with the word ‘Resilience’ on Saturday.
Each letter composing this term corresponds to a movement supported by Extinction Rebellion. The letter ‘R’ thus symbolizes all the groups which suffer from structural racism in society, the ‘S’ represents the arts sector. The other letters represent the Yellow Vests, ecological and social movements as well as the health care sector.
The police, however, did not authorize the affixing of new letters on the facade of the building and prevented the demonstrators from then going to rue de la Loi. A few dozen activists are currently being detained by the police in riot gear on Pacheco Boulevard.
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