Three Green MEPs arrested at #AntiNuclear protest in Belgium

Green MEPs Tilly Metz, Michèle Rivasi and Molly Scott Cato

The Guardian reports that three Green MEPs – including one from the UK – have been arrested after breaking into a Belgian military airbase to protest against its stockpiling of American B61 nuclear bombs.

Today I'm joining an occupation of a Belgian F-16 runway in an anti-nuclear protest.
Weapons that could kill millions of people puts one's own personal safety into perspective.https://t.co/zjzxeYXkqm

— Molly Scott Cato MEP (@MollyMEP) February 20, 2019

Scott Cato told The Guardian that personal safety is put into perspective by the weapons which could kill millions of people: “Nuclear weapons offer no solution in this era and no rationale for defending the people in the south-west who I represent, one of whom died this year because of a Russian secret forces attack. How are nuclear weapons supposed to help Dawn Sturgess?” she said, referring to the woman police believe was killed by novichok in Amesbury, Wiltshire last year.

MEPs in Brussels enjoy some immunity from prosecution but it is unclear if this would cover state security laws, which carry potential five-year prison sentences.

Michèle Rivasi, the vice-chair of the Green party in the European parliamentsaid on Tuesday that: ““We are demanding the withdrawal of nuclear bombs at Kleine Brogel and also from Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. We urge all EU member states to sign and ratify the treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons. Our first objective is a Europe without nuclear arms.”

#nukeban #ICAN Exigeons le retrait des bombes nucléaires américaines stationnées à #KleineBrogel, en Italie, aux Pays Bas & Allemagne comme signe d’engagement européen vers le désarmement #nucléaire. Cela met nullement en péril notre sécurité mais au contraire la sauvegarde. pic.twitter.com/5XzQlF3k0m

— Michèle Rivasi (@MicheleRivasi) February 20, 2019

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