Greta Thunberg Detained In Copenhagen During Protest Against War In Gaza

Danish police detained Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and five others at the University of Copenhagen on Wednesday during a protest against Israel’s war on Gaza.

The 21-year-old activist, who was captured on video being escorted into a police vehicle, was released from custody the same day, according to Reuters, which cited Danish media reports.

The demonstration occurred in the university’s administration building as the Danish student group Students Against the Occupation demanded that the school stop collaborating with Israeli universities.

“While the situation in Palestine worsens, the University of Copenhagen continues its collaboration with Israeli universities and thereby contributes knowledge that is used to commit genocide. Our university must not contribute to genocide,” the group said in a press release.

Thunberg, who is not a student of the university, posted videos on her Instagram account about the demonstration before she was detained.

“Students Against the Occupation and I are at the University of Copenhagen’s administration building,” Thunberg wrote Wednesday morning in an Instagram Story.

“Police have been called, violently entered the building with a ram wearing assault rifles. They are evicting everyone as we speak,” she wrote.

Thunberg added in a separate story post, “Students have been arrested and are being taken to the station this very moment.”

While Thunberg is known for her climate activism, in recent months she has also been an advocate for Palestinians — even garnering the ire of a spokesperson for the Israeli military who later apologized.

In an opinion piece for The Guardian in December, Thunberg and three fellow members of Fridays for Future Sweden, the climate activism movement