Denmark Greta Thunberg arrested in Copenhagen

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been temporarily arrested during a pro-Palestinian protest in the Danish capital Copenhagen.

Photos from the newspapers "Politiken" and "Ekstra Bladet" and a video posted on Instagram by the organizers of the action showed the 21-year-old being taken away by police officers in front of a university building. She was wearing a Palestinian scarf around her neck. "You are not alone!" (You are not alone), fellow campaigners kept shouting at her.

The Copenhagen police reported the arrest of six demonstrators, without confirming or denying that Thunberg was among them. The detainees are accused of trespassing, the police wrote on the online platform X.

A video on "Ekstra Bladet" later showed how the young Swedish woman was released from the Bellahøj police station in north-west Copenhagen. She refused to answer questions from a reporter from the newspaper.

Thunberg herself shared videos of the protest in front of an administrative building at Copenhagen University (KU) in her Instagram story. They were protesting because the university had not responded to demands including an institutional academic boycott, she wrote.

By this she meant that the KU should cease all cooperation with Israeli universities due to the war in Gaza.

The university has long been called upon to do so by the group Studerende mod Besættelsen (Students against the Occupation), which organized the protest action. The university's administrative and museum buildings are located in the city center of Copenhagen in the immediate vicinity of the city's Great Synagogue.

Thunberg repeatedly takes part in Palestinian protests

Greta Thunberg has become world-famous for her "school strike for the climate". Her once solitary protest action gave rise to the international climate movement Fridays for Future.

Since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, the Swede has also repeatedly used her reach on social media to draw attention to the devastating situation of the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip.

Thunberg has already been arrested several times at demonstrations in various countries, primarily at climate protests. In May, she was also taken away by the police during a rally against Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, southern Sweden.