Police in Scotland have arrested 25 environmental activists who tried to interfere with the Scottish Grand National. This was expressed by Deputy Chief of Police Tim Meyers.DEA News.
“At around 3:20 p.m. on Saturday, April 22, just before the Scottish Grand National main event kicked off at Ayr Racecourse, a large group of protesters climbed under and over the fences and headed for the track. The rapid response of the racecourse staff and the police in Scotland prevented this group from starting a riot,” police said.
Before the German court prisoner the incarceration of three Letzte Generation environmental activists. Die Welt noted that this case was the most severe punishment in German history for the Letzte Generation eco-activists. The publication emphasized that three men and one woman were accused and they were sentenced to five, four and three months in prison. One defendant received a suspended sentence.