POLICE INTERVENTION AT PEACEFUL PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE MINISTRY FOR ENVIRONMENT

POLICE INTERVENTION AT PEACEFUL PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE MINISTRY FOR ENVIRONMENT

At 8:00 am on Tuesday May 26th, two groups gathered in front of both Slovenia’s Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning (MOP) buildings in Ljubljana. They were there to protest the third anti-corona legislation package that will be voted on during a late-night parliamentary session later that day. If approved, the legislation would abolish virtually all nature and environmental safeguards for the construction of large facilities until the end of 2021, dismantling the system of protection for the environment, nature and human health. The protesters were not physically preventing anyone from entering the building; footage of the protest shows people walking in and out with ease. There were no […]