Greta Thunberg and a group of pro-Palestinian activists were briefly arrested on Wednesday after occupying a building at the University of Copenhagen to call for a boycott of Israeli universities, Danish media reported.
The 21-year-old environmental activist appears in the daily newspaper’s images Extra Bladet wearing a black and white keffiyeh — the emblematic scarf of the Palestinian cause — on her shoulders, escorted out of the building by police.
Greta Thunberg, for her part, posted photos on Instagram of riot police entering a building where the group “Students Against the Occupation” was demonstrating.
“I cannot confirm the names of those arrested, but six people have been arrested in connection with the protest,” a Copenhagen police spokesperson told AFP.
Three of them are suspected of having forced entry to the building and blocking it, he added.
The six people were released several hours later, the spokesman told AFP, and videos published by Extra Bladet showed Thunberg leaving the police station.
“While the situation in Palestine deteriorates, the University of Copenhagen continues to cooperate with academic institutions in Israel,” the group Students Against the Occupation denounced in an Instagram post.
“We are occupying” the premises “of the central administration of the university with one demand: an academic boycott immediately.”
Pro-Palestinian movements have set up camps at universities in the United States and Europe since the spring to protest the bombing of the Gaza Strip and the occupation of Palestinian territories.
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