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- pcgaming@lemmy.ca
The people were protesting against the use of fossil fuel generators to power data centers.
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Fox News is going to try to tie this to today’s outage.
Fossielvrij’s action was supposed to be peaceful, but it appears that another group joined the demonstration and broke through the fences around the site, leading to the police confrontation. The suspects were arrested for domestic violence and then taken to a cell complex, where it will be decided if they will be detained longer.
Perhaps their machine translation was imperfect, but I wouldn’t call trespassing ‘violence’, even if it involves breaking a fence.
it appears that some members of the group decided to enter the construction site “with violence” anyway, forcing the police to intervene and leading to their arrest
Absolutely no evidence that the protest “turned violent”. Entering a construction site is obviously not violence. Breaking in is not violence either. Even destroying it would not be violence. Violence happens to people.
I mean I agree that the phrasing is misleading as fuck because “turns violent” really feels like it indicates something more severe but violence is not a thing that only happens to people. Destroying a gate to enter somewhere is entering with violence.
This protest is a continuation of the action that started last Friday, where protesters breached the Microsoft data center, which was being owned by Pure Data Centers. It is also the first of many organized by the “Stop Dirty Data Centers” coalition across Europe, with actions planned for Amsterdam, Dublin, Warsaw, Denmark, and several other cities across the continent.
The sole purpose of police is to protect the investments of the rich.
