BRUSSELS – Police detained 185 protesters in central Brussels on Saturday after the environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion staged demonstrations at a car show in protest at the auto industry’s role in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that cause climate change.
The protest came days after the European Commission unveiled ideas on how to finance its flagship Green Deal project that aims to make the European Union a CO2 emissions-neutral area by 2050, in part through the transformation of the car industry.
A member and former spokesman for the group, Christophe Meierhans, said Extinction Rebellion targeted the car industry because it told “a lot of lies in order to sell more cars.”
The show’s organizers said they expected around 500,000 visitors to the 10-day car show, the largest of its kind in the country.(Reuters)
