Greenland police charge rig protestors

Greenland police chief: Protestors face breaking and entering and trespass charges. Courtesy sermitsiaq.ag

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Anthea Pitt

 02 September 2010 18:27 GMT

Greenland’s police chief today told Upstream that the activists on board the Greenpeace vessel Esperanza have, in the force’s opinion, broken Greenlandic law and may be liable to prosecution over the environmental group’s occupation of the semi-submersible drilling rig Stena Don.



Bjorn Tegner Bay, who took over as the Greenland force’s top cop in May, said the four activists who had scaled the Stena Don were currently being held in police custody in Aasiaat.

They have been charged with breaking and entering, as well as trespass.

Bay added that a pilot who flew a helicopter chartered by Greenpeace over the 500-metre exclusion zones surrounding the Stena Don and the drillship Stena Forth has also been charged with trespass and faces a fine.

“There is an open-ended scale for punishment,” he said. “(The four)…

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