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Paper mache-headed protest by British media moguls: Organized by the Extinction Rebellion initiative
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With several tons of horse manure, activists in London protested against British media moguls and their dovetailing with politics.
"We've had enough of your shit, that's why we're giving it back to you," tweeted the Free the Press alliance on Sunday.
The police arrested a total of six people.
They had dumped the feces in front of the building of the media company Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), which owns the newspaper "Daily Mail".
The demonstrators climbed on scaffolding and hung up protest banners.
The police prevented a similar action on the Telegraph building.
Protesters then marched through central London and Parliament with banners and flags.
They shouted slogans and lit smoke pots.
The protest was organized by the Extinction Rebellion initiative.
She criticizes the close connection between the billionaire owners of British publishers and politics, and calls for an end to "media corruption that suppresses the truth from the public for profit reasons."
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Many publishers in Great Britain are in the hands of some very wealthy entrepreneurs such as Rupert Murdoch ("The Sun", "The Times"), Frederick Barclay ("The Daily Telegraph"), Jonathan Harmsworth ("Daily Mail") or Alexander Lebedew ("Evening Standard "," The Independent ").
In another protest on Sunday, people also demonstrated in London for the opening of discos and clubs.
The government had planned this step for June 21, but postponed it by four weeks due to the spread of the delta variant of the corona virus.
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