LONDON —
London police on Monday arrested six people after environmental campaigners
doused four landmark buildings in the British capital with orange paint in a
Halloween protest.
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Four were held
after paint was sprayed on the interior ministry, the headquarters of the
domestic intelligence agency MI5 and a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s US media
conglomerate News Corp, the Metropolitan Police said.
Officers from the
City of London force arrested two others following a similar protest at the
Bank of England in the capital’s financial district.
The Just Stop Oil
group, which wants an end to new
North Sea oil and gas exploration, said it was
responsible and posted a video on its Twitter account.
The activists said
the buildings were chosen “to represent the pillars that support and maintain
the power of the fossil fuel economy — government, security, finance and
media”.
News Corp
UK and Ireland Limited, the subsidiary of
News Corp that was targeted, publishes titles that include newspapers The
Times, The Sunday Times, and The Sun.
Just Stop Oil has over the last month mounted almost daily
protests in opposition to the government’s plans to license more than 100 new
oil and gas projects by 2025.
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