Greta Thunberg detained during London oil conference

Greta Thunberg got arrested for protesting outside a fancy hotel in London where an oil and gas conference was happening. The conference used to be called the “Oil and Money” conference. People who saw it happen told CNN about it.

London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement on X (previously known as Twitter) that they arrested several people outside a hotel on Park Lane in London. But CNN did not say for sure that Thunberg was one of the people who got arrested.

The young person, who is 20 years old, was participating in a protest organized by a climate group called Fossil Free London. The protest was taking place outside the Intercontinental Hotel, where the Energy Intelligence Forum was happening. This forum is a yearly meeting where top executives from oil and gas companies like TotalEnergies, Shell, and Aramco come together.

Thunberg and other protestors stopped people from going into the hotel to try and stop delegates from going inside.

The Energy Intelligence Forum did not reply to CNN’s request for comment when the article was published.

Thunberg said in a statement by Fossil Free London before being arrested that we have to interrupt because our world is being destroyed by false claims and deception.

She said: “The industry that extracts and uses fossil fuels has purposely diverted attention and postponed actions. ” They have made ways to keep their business going even if it harms the planet. We can’t breathe because of the gases they produce.

Greenpeace also went to the protest. They said that many people, including Thunberg, gathered in front of a fancy hotel to protest against the fossil fuel industry’s influence on climate politics in the UK and worldwide. The protesters had to deal with a lot of police being there too.

The group said that demonstrators stopped people from entering the hotel since 8 in the morning. The climbers descended from the roof of the building and displayed a large banner that said “Make Big Oil Pay. ”

During a press conference earlier today, Thunberg criticized politicians as being weak and lacking courage for having meetings with lobbyists from the oil industry, as stated by Greenpeace.

Thunberg has had encounters with the police before because of her climate protests. In January, the police stopped her at a protest in a coal mine. In July, a Swedish court made her pay a fine for not following the police’s instructions during a protest in June. This protest had caused oil tankers in part of Malmö harbor to be blocked.

Greenpeace said that the protest on Tuesday is the start of three days of action to stop the conference.