Police arrest 2 anti-oil activists after protest at Sigourney Weaver London play
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Two protesters climbed onto the stage as actress Sigourney Weaver performed, launching a confetti cannon.
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LONDON – British police said on Jan 28 they arrested two people a day after climate activists disrupted a London play starring Hollywood actress Sigourney Weaver.
Two protesters climbed onto the stage at London’s Theatre Royal during a performance of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, launching a confetti cannon, according to footage posted on social media.
Activist group Just Stop Oil said the pair held a sign that read “Over 1.5 Degrees is a Global Shipwreck” to highlight the dangers of rising temperatures.
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The audience greeted the pair with boos and whistles along with shouts of “get them off”, but by the time police arrived the pair had left.
“Two people – a 42-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man – were subsequently arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass after attending a central London police station on (Jan 28). They remain in custody,” police said.
In a statement, Just Stop Oil named one activist as mechanical engineer Richard Weir, 60, and lecturer Hayley Walsh from Nottingham in central England.
“I am scared for my children,” the statement quoted Ms Walsh as saying.
“I can’t sleepwalk them into a future of food shortages, life-threatening storms and wars for resources.”
Weaver, 75, who achieved global fame in the 1970s and 1980s in the Alien movie franchise, plays magician Prospero in the play, which opened on Dec 19. AFP
