GENEVA — Geneva’s airport was briefly closed to flights on Tuesday as environment activists stormed a personal jet reasonable on a neighboring tarmac by ripping down or scaling fences, handcuffing themselves to landing equipment and other material, and scuffling with cops and security priorto being transported away. City cops stated about 80 individuals were apprehended.
The demonstration included about 100 activists from 17 nations and groups, consistingof Greenpeace, Scientist Rebellion, Stay Grounded and Extinction Rebellion, who interferedwith the yearly European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition — one of the market’s leading occasions, which is taking location in Geneva this week.
Video images revealed yellow-vested protesters pulling down a wire fence as authorities attempted to takeon them or splash them with pepper spray while an alarm sounded. Others, gettinghere by bike and wielding ladders, scaled a fence in a different location with less security to gainaccessto the tarmac.
Some demonstrators were identified smiling as they took mobilephone images of the attack onto the fixed shows on the fringes of the Geneva airport.
Once inside, demonstrators stuck caution labels on aircrafts with messages such as “Private jets burn our future” or shouted “Climate justice!”
Sandy Bouchat, spokesperson for the Geneva airport, stated it was briefly shut to both outbound and incoming flights for about an hour, for security factors. Seven flights were diverted and others were postponed.
Airport operators stated they prepared to file crook compl