ENVIRONMENTAL activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by police at a climate protest outside a hotel in central London.
Images on social media showed the 20-year-old Swedish campaigner being led away by officers and placed in the back of a marked van.
"It has been clear for decades that the fossil fuel industries were well aware of the consequences of their business models, and yet, they have done nothing. A white fence surrounded the hotel entrance keeping protesters out while police smuggled conference attendees through the crowd of chanting activists and a samba band.
"We have no other option but to put our bodies outside this conference and to physically disrupt. And we have to do that every time, we have to continue showing them that they are not going to get away with this."We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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