Greta Thunberg arrested and handcuffed at Pro-Palestine protest

Greta Thunberg has been arrested during a Palestine protest in Denmark.

The Swedish climate activist, 21,joined an occupation of a University of Copenhagen building as students call for it to boycott Israeli universities.

Sharing footage of police on her Instagram story, Thunberg said: ‘Police have been called, violently entered the building with a ram wearing assault rifles.

‘They are evicting everyone as we speak.’

Images show her with hands cuffed and a black-and-white keffiyeh shawl draped over her shoulders police marched her into a van, shortly after 9am local time.

Five other people were arrested after blocking the building, which three of them briefly entered, Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten reported.

Six people were arrested by police, described by Thunberg as ‘armed, at the protest today (Picture: @studerendemodbesaettelsen / Instagram)

‘I can’t confirm the names of those arrested, but six people have been arrested in connection with the demonstration’, a police spokesperson said.

‘They are suspected of forcing their way into the building and blocking the entrance.’

Students against Occupation, the campaign group behind the protest, said: ‘While the situation in Palestine only gets worse, the University of Copenhagen continues cooperation with academic institutions in Israel.

‘We are occupying the university’s central administration with one demand: academic boycott now.’

Thunberg has already been arrested at least once this year.

Thrust to fame as a climate activist, Greta Thunberg has devoted more time to the Palestinian cause (Picture: Jan Kaare Ness/EPA/NTB)

Dutch police dragged her from an Extinction Rebellion protest in The Hague, Netherlands, in April.

She previously walked free from a UK court, where she was on trial accused of a public order offence during a protest against an energy conference at London’s InterContinental hostel on Park Lane last October.

The judge criticised the police’s ‘unlawful’ handling of that protest when he dismissed the case in February.

More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed during Israel’s invasion of Gaza, launched after militant group Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 250 hostages on October 7.

The bloodshed has sparked protests around the world, with pro-Palestinian protesters setting up camp at universities around the world calling for a ceasefire.

Just this week, the UK government announced it will suspend some arms exports to Israel after a review of the country’s compliance with international law.

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