Green MEPs held after anti-nuclear protest at Belgian military base
by Arthur Neslen in Brussels from on (#49G53)
UK's Molly Scott Cato among those held after action over stockpiling of US nuclear bombs
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.
The MEPs - Molly Scott Cato, Michile Rivasi and Tilly Metz - unfurled a banner on a runway for F-16 fighter jets at the Kleine Brogel base in the east of the country calling for a nuclear-free Europe, before being taken into custody.
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