A woman who claims her elbow was broken by police during a climate protest at The Hague has described the painful physical and mental impact of the incident. The protests were with the aim to stop the billions of euros spent on fossil fuel subsidies in the Netherlands every year.
The Dutch resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, was one of more than 400 people arrested for taking part in the peaceful protest on Saturday. In a video posted to X by organisers Extinction Rebellion Nederland, she is seen lying in the back of a bus while being detained by The Hague police. A male police officer twists her arm forward at an unnatural angle, and she yells out in pain. “This violence is no exception, I have only been ‘lucky’ that it was filmed,” she says in a statement shared with Euronews Green”.