Agricultural dissatisfaction with the government’s action in the mink case will be marked on Saturday in both Copenhagen and Aarhus.
Hundreds of protesters are thus expected to drive in tractors through both cities on Saturday morning and afternoon.
This is announced by both the Copenhagen Police and the East Jutland Police in press releases issued on Thursday and Friday.
The police expect that the demonstrations with the slow-moving agricultural machines will significantly affect the other traffic.
At approximately 10 o’clock, the tractors will be led into Copenhagen via three access roads: Gammel Køge Landevej, Roskildevej and Frederikssundsvej.
Then the tractors drive south on ring 2 and gather at Kalvebod Brygge, after which they continue past, among others, Christiansborg Castle Square and Kongens Nytorv. The tractors end at Langelinie in Østerbro.
At the same time, a group of fishing cutters will dock at Langelinie, where there will be a joint demonstration from 2 pm to 4 pm.
– We will prioritize leading the tractors through the city with as few stops as possible, but in any case the demonstration will significantly affect the traffic, says police inspector Tommy Larsen.
– Therefore, we encourage motorists to find alternative routes or perhaps consider using public transport instead, he says in the announcement from the Copenhagen Police.
In Aarhus, the tractors are assembled in four different places outside Aarhus. They meet in Odder, Hørning, Hammel and Aarhus Nord, respectively, and drive from the meeting places at 10 am towards Aarhus city center.
The tractors’ terminus will be Sydhavnsgade by the Port of Aarhus and Molslinjen’s old ferry terminal, respectively.
The actual demonstration in Aarhus begins on Saturday at 11.30 from Molslinjen’s old ferry terminal and at 11.40 from Sydhavnsgade. From here, the demonstrators march to Musikhusparken.
The many tractors are expected to drive out of Aarhus again at 2.30 pm.
Farmer Knud Jeppesen from Jelling is a spokesman for the movement Rebellion from the Land, which organizes the demonstrations.
Earlier this week, he told Landbrugsavisen that the protests were due to dissatisfaction with the extensive killing of mink, which was initiated after a mutated variant of coronavirus was found in Danish mink.
The government’s order that all mink should be killed later turned out to be without authority in the legislation.
– It is actually a demonstration for democracy and for the Constitution. The mink case has only been the triggering factor, that you wipe out a profession with a stroke of the pen, without legal authority, Knud Jeppesen told the newspaper.
Source: The Nordic Page