One police officer has been injured in a three-vehicle pile-up after reportedly attempting to intervene in a climate extremist road blockade.
One UK police officer has been injured in the wake of a climate road blockade on a major London highway, with the law enforcement official reportedly being thrown off their bike after becoming caught in a vehicle collision.
It comes as green extremists across Europe continue to cause chaos in a variety of countries, blocking roadways and airports while also taking to vandalise public artwork in service of their climate goals.
According to a statement by the Essex police, the officer was injured in a multi-vehicle collision while intervening in an attempt by protesters to block the M25 highway.
An officer has been injured and two people have been arrested during our response to disruption on the M25.
An officer was injured following a collision involving two lorries after a rolling roadblock had been put in place between J26 and J27.
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“Initially officers intervened to deal with someone on the motorway between Junction 26 and 27,” a statement from the force reads.
“Subsequently, there was a collision involving two lorries and a police motorbike,” it continues. “The motorbike rider was injured.”
An individual who claims to have been an eyewitness to the accident reportedly told the Daily Mail that the accident occurred as the now-injured officer attempted to prevent one protester from climbing a structure near the motorway.
“I was driving along at around 6.21 am when a woman started climbing a concrete pole,” the individual reportedly told the tabloid.
“A police officer on a motorbike swerved to try to stop her and collided with a lorry, which then crashed into another lorry,” they continued. “They arrested the woman before she could get on to the gantry.”
At least three people have subsequently been arrested in relation to the climate protest.
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While who is to blame for the pile-up remains unknown, the accident nevertheless represents the latest controversy surrounding ongoing climate-inspired road blockades in Europe, which officials have long warned have been putting the safety of the general public at risk.
The issue of safety in relation to the demonstrations has come to a head over the last number of weeks, with a woman being pronounced brain dead last Thursday after being involved in a traffic accident where emergency services were reportedly delayed by road-blocking eco-extremists.
It has resulted in politicians from even the left of the German political spectrum condemning the radical activists involved in the actions, with the brain-dead woman’s twin sister telling climate activists that she wishes they could experience the “hell” she has been put through.
“I would just like to tell them what I experienced, and then give them the chance to put themselves in this hell,” Anja Umann reportedly said.
She went on to criticise “how ignorantly some climate activists accept the death of people who may work for environmental protection and other people themselves”, with one publication noting that some eco-extremists have responded online to the death by simply saying that “shit happens”.
Despite mass outrage from both German political elites and the general public – over 80 per cent of whom believe the actions are morally wrong — such protests have continued, with climate extremists occupying Berlin’s famous Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday as part of demands to curb the use of oil and gas.
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