Queen Margrethe II of Denmark gave a big gala dinner on Thursday evening in honor of the heads of state and government attending the UN climate summit. Surprise: among his guests were two Greenpeace activists, in evening dress, who managed to hold up protest posters in the hall of Christiansborg Palace.
"Politicians talk-Leaders act" proclaimed their slogan (politicians speak - leaders act). The two intruders were quickly arrested by the security services. Entering the palace without being checked around 20:15 p.m., with the first guests, less than an hour before dinner started, they did not manage to enter the dinner room. Greenpeace said in a statement that their convoy of three vehicles arrived just in front of that of Hillary Clinton.
A Copenhagen police spokesman, Henrik Moeller Jakobsen, said that three people had been arrested, "two of whom were in the castle hall". An investigation was underway "to determine how they were able to pass the police checkpoints".
Greenpeace added that it had projected messages in English, French and German on the walls of the palace and the building that houses the Prime Minister's offices in the center of the Danish capital. The environmental organization had carried out a similar operation on December 11, before a European Union summit in Brussels. Despite draconian security measures, several activists had emerged from a van just outside the entrance to the building where the leaders of the 27 EU countries were starting to arrive.
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