Two activists from the Simply Cease Oil motion (Let’s cease oil) in white T-shirts sprayed the Stonehenge monument close to the British city of Salisbury with orange paint. Different individuals tried to cease them and dragged them away. Nevertheless, the activists managed to color a number of stones.
The group stated it sprayed orange cornmeal paint on the rocks, which it stated would “quickly be washed away by the rain.” Round 8,000 individuals gathered at Stonehenge for the summer time solstice final 12 months and an analogous quantity is predicted this Thursday. That is most likely why the activists selected this world-famous monument.
Simply Cease Oil stated the protesters have been 21-year-old Oxford College pupil Niamh Lynch and 73-year-old Rajan Naidu from Birmingham. The incident passed off round eleven o’clock within the morning.
Police confirmed that the 2 activists have been arrested on suspicion of vandalizing a historic monument. Curators dle BBC they’re investigating the extent of the harm. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the incident as a “shameful act of vandalism”.
An activist group based mostly in Britain is searching for a dedication from the British authorities to cease issuing new fossil gasoline mining licences. “Persevering with to burn coal, oil and fuel will consequence within the deaths of thousands and thousands of individuals. That is why Simply Cease Oil is demanding that our subsequent authorities signal a legally binding settlement to part out the usage of fossil fuels by 2030,” stated a spokesperson for Simply Cease Oil.
