According to report, a group has blocked Junction 3 of the motorway causing more disruption following an injunction implemented by Grant Shapps and Priti Patel which would see protesters face prosecution if caught blocking the M25 popular road.
The Environmental
group Insulate Britain has defied a court order to block the M25 for the
seventh time in two weeks.
Kent Police
confirmed that it was responding to disruption at Junction 3 of the M25.
“We are
currently in attendance at J3 of the M25 (Swanley Interchange) due to a group
of protesters blocking the roundabout. Please expect delays and find
alternative routes if possible whilst we work with @HighwaysSEAST to remove the
protesters and reopen the roundabout,” Kent Police wrote on Twitter.
Kent Police
confirmed that the junction is now open and 11 arrests were made as a result of
the disruption, but delays would still remain due to a backlog of traffic.
Kent Police
later confirmed that an additional 16 protesters were arrested following
reports that
protesters had glued themselves to a road near Swanley roundabout,
M25 over five after the morning’s disruptions. Kent Police said officers were
on the scene “within three minutes” and arrested the protesters on suspicion of
obstructing the highway and conspiracy to commit criminal damage.
A total of 27
protests were made today.
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A spokesperson
from Insulate Britain said: “We are going nowhere. You can raid our savings.
You can confiscate our property. You can deny us our liberty and put us behind
bars.
“But shooting
the messenger can never destroy the message: that this country is going to hell
unless you take emergency action to stop putting carbon into the air. Boris get
on with the job.”
More than 50
people were arrested on Monday following protests blocking roads to Heathrow
for more than three hours. However, they were released pending investigation.
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