Just stop oilNine Just Stop Oil activists have been arrested at Heathrow Airport but operations are continuing as usual, police said.
They were arrested near the airport and taken into custody on suspicion of conspiring to interfere with a key national infrastructure site under the Public Order Act.
The group said “the international uprising begins” and claimed that supporters of climate activist organization Last Generation were behind it Delays at Cologne-Bonn Airport.
The German airport confirmed that “unauthorised persons” had gained access to its security area earlier.
Footage from Heathrow shared on the Just Stop Oil (JSO) account on X, formerly Twitter, appears to show people cycling near a high barbed wire fence near airliners before dismounting and being approached by officers.
A JSO spokesperson said: “We refuse to die for fossil fuels. The continued burning of oil, gas and coal, as we pass irreversible tipping points that threaten to derail our climate in an accelerated manner, jeopardizes the stability on which our entire society depends.”
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A Heathrow Airport spokesperson said: “There has been absolutely no impact on operations whatsoever” and that “no one has been able to enter any place they shouldn’t be”.
“Thanks to the quick action of the police and airport colleagues, there is no disruption to passenger travel.
“Heathrow continues to operate as normal today.”
Long sentences
Earlier this month, the High Court granted an injunction prohibiting anyone from entering, occupying or remaining on land at London Heathrow Airport for environmental campaigning purposes without consent.
Anyone who violates the injunction faces imprisonment, a fine or seizure of their property for contempt of court.
The action follows the imposition of lengthy prison sentences on five JSO members who disrupted M25 in 2022.
Sentences – four and five years old – were described in an open letter signed by hundreds of high-profile figures – as “one of the greatest injustices committed in a British court in modern history”.
