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WORLD NEWS Friday 18 OctOber 2019

Police arrest 2nd suspect in case of isolated Dutch family

Associated Press The man who raised the
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch alarm after walking into a
police said Thursday that local bar and ordering five
a group of people discov- beers for himself also says
ered on an isolated farm he belongs to the family.
this week may have been Drone images of the farm
kept there against their will showed a large vegeta-
for up to nine years, as they ble garden on one side of
arrested a 67-year-old man a group of buildings and
who says he is the father of chopped wood stacked
the group. up along a fence.
"We have reasons to sus- A 58-year-old man who
pect that the six persons rented the farm was ar-
involved did not stay in the rested shortly after Mon-
house ... of their own free day's raid on suspicion of
will," police said in a state- involvement in "depriva-
ment. "We are investigating tion of liberty and harming
whether a certain religion the health of others" and
or philosophy forms the money laundering. He re-
cause of their living situa- portedly is an Austrian na-
tion." tional and not related to
Police raided the farm in a The small group of buildings after a family group were discovered to be living in secluded condi- the other people involved
tions in Ruinerwold, 130 kilometers (80 miles) northeast of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday Oct.
rural village 130 kilometers 15, 2019. in the case.
(80 miles) northeast of Am- Associated Press On Thursday, police also
sterdam on Monday after detained the supposed fa-
one man left the building found six people, all adults one family, in makeshift was barely visible from the ther in connection with the
and raised the alarm. They who said they belong to rooms in the farm, which road behind a row of trees. same suspicions.q

London commuters scuffle with climate activists

By MIKE CORDER onto the platform where he when it will impact busi-
Associated Press was quickly surrounded as ness as usual, and not in
LONDON (AP) — Angry he lay on the ground. the evening, when people
commuters scuffled with cli- British Transport Police say want to get home to be
mate activists who climbed they were called to three with their loved ones."
onto the roofs of trains early stations in east London ear- Police arrested a total of
Thursday, snarling services ly Thursday after protesters eight people and urged
in the busy morning rush climbed onto the roofs of protesters not to target
hours in the British capital. trains or glued themselves London's underground rail
Londoners have largely tol- to the carriages. network.
erated a series of peace- Robin Boardman, a spokes- London Mayor Sadiq Khan
ful protests in recent days man for the protesters, said condemned the protesters.
by the Extinction Rebellion that if such action is neces- "This illegal action is ex-
group, but interfering with sary to make the govern- tremely dangerous, coun-
workers' morning commute ment take notice of their terproductive and is caus-
appeared to be a step too climate change demands, ing unacceptable disrup- In this image taken from video, a protester stands of top of a
far for some. "then this is what we must tion to Londoners who use train, in London, Thursday Oct. 17, 2019.
Television images showed do." public transport to get to Associated Press
at least one man reach- "None of us want to incon- work," he said.
ing up and grabbing the venience ordinary people," More than 1,400 people roads, bridges and airports on climate change. Most
leg of a protester on top of he said. "That's why we're have been arrested since in London over a week ago have been released with-
a Tube train, dragging him doing this in the morning the group began blocking to demand faster action out being charged.q