Two Just Stop Oil protesters have sprayed Rolex’s London retailer with orange paint from a hearth extinguisher.
The two activists defaced the entrance of the posh jewellers in Knightsbridge at round 8.30am, the group stated.
It comes after three weeks of each day protests, which have included climbing 200ft above the Dartford Crossing and other people gluing themselves to a number of roads.
Adrian Johnson, 56, a former deputy headteacher from Perthshire in Scotland stated: “The science is clear. The breakdown of the climate is here and it is due to the extraction and use of fossil fuels. Any new fossil fuel projects will cause irreparable damage to the climate. This may have already happened.
“And but, that is the trail our authorities is following by granting over 100 new oil and fuel licences. It is unnecessary and it is reckless past perception.”
Jennifer Kowalski, 26, an environmental scientist from Glasgow, stated: “People around the world are starving, suffering and dying so an elite can spend vast fortunes on vanity items.”
Just Stop Oil desires the federal government to droop all new fossil gas licences.
The Met Police stated they have been “quickly on the scene” by 8.43am and arrested two protesters on suspicion of prison injury.
“They have been taken into custody at a central London police station,” a spokesperson stated.
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It comes as new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has reversed his predecessor Liz Truss’s resolution to elevate the moratorium on fracking.
New oil licences have been granted within the North Sea, nevertheless.
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Speaking to Sky News, Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti, director of the University of Surrey’s Institute for Sustainability, stated the group’s “strategies are backfiring”.
They additionally threat “dividing the ecological front” and “tainting the cause” of teams who’re engaged in constructive dialogue with governments, fossil foil producers and massive enterprise, he added.
Source: information.sky.com”