Music lovers expel climate activist Concertgebouw after disrupting requiem | Inland

The activists want the Netherlands to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry and become climate neutral as soon as possible. After the action, the activists were ‘forced out of the room by the public’, the action group writes in a statement.

“Sorry, this is an emergency”, activist ‘Sebastiaan’ begins his break as the musicians pause for a moment. “We are in the midst of a climate crisis.” Immediately afterwards, his words are loudly drowned out by loud boos, as can be seen on a livestream that Extinction Rebellion shared on social media.

“Sit down,” a man yells at him.fuck off“boy”, it sounds too. When he is pulled from his chair after a few seconds, loud applause is heard.

A group of concertgoers pulled the activist into the aisle and kicked him out of the building, says Extinction Rebellion spokesperson Jelle de Graaf. According to him, the activists were literally thrown out on the street. “They were pushed out of the room by twenty people and pushed to the ground,” he says. “A dangerous situation, purely for the peaceful expression of their views.” The video shows how at least a few concertgoers push ‘Sebastiaan’ down the aisle to the back of the hall.

“Find another place dude”, is the criticism of one of the concert-goers to the filming activists. But according to De Graaf, known from the tabletop incident at Beau’s table, an action during Verdi’s Requim was deliberately chosen. “Very appropriate, at a funeral mass. Because so many people are already dying from the climate crisis.” He likens the concert to that of a few musicians on the sinking Titanic, who kept playing stiffly as the ship went down. “While the climate crisis is already here, the Dutch elite continue to watch the concert. That is indicative of their lack of urgency.”