Environmental activists from the group Just Stop Oil interrupted a match at the World Snooker Championships in Sheffield (north England) on Monday by spilling orange powder on the pool table.
Two activists burst into the playing area within the Crucible Theater in Sheffield shortly after a game had started, then one of them climbed onto one of the pool tables and dumped it some sort of orange powder.
The other activist, who was about to do the same on another table where a second match was being played, was prevented from doing so by the referee.
“A campaign of indefinite duration”
"They are calling on the government to stop all new fossil fuel projects and calling on UK sporting institutions to join the civil resistance against the government's genocidal policies
," the group said in a statement.
Just Stop Oil has been multiplying for months the actions punch to demand the abandonment of the exploration of fossil fuels in the United Kingdom.
It calls for
"an indefinite campaign of civil resistance"
from April 24.
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Six of its activists were sentenced at the end of March to suspended prison sentences or to community service for having disrupted the Formula 1 Grand Prix at Silverstone last year.
In February five other activists who had glued themselves to the frame of a painting representing the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci at the Royal Academy of Arts were sentenced to a fine.
Last year, activists attacked
Van Gogh's
Sunflowers , exhibited at the National Gallery in London, by spraying the work, protected by a window, with tomato soup.
