Jul.1 (GMM) The governor of Styria has slammed local weather activists for making an attempt to disrupt Sunday’s Austrian GP.
Simply earlier than the beginning of the F3 assist race on the Pink Bull Ring, a number of protesters breached the spectator fences and made it so far as the center of a gravel entice – reportedly with the intention to chain themselves to the circuit.
“Two of them made it to the gravel mattress at flip 3 earlier than they had been stopped by the organiser’s safety workers,” a police spokesman confirmed to Kronen Zeitung newspaper.
“They apparently got here onto the monitor through the western, wooded half.”
Two males and a girl had been arrested, charged with trespassing, theft of a service as they didn’t have tickets, property injury and different offenses – and strongly condemned by the visiting Styrian governor, Christopher Drexler.
“To me, these persons are not activists, they’re harmful,” he stated. “They’re taking tens of hundreds of peaceable motorsport followers hostage and thereby damaging the local weather – specifically that of our society.”
Drexler added that the activists endanger the drivers, the spectators, the safety personnel, “and finally our joint efforts to guard the local weather”.
