The spokesman, speaking from onboard the group’s mother ship Arctic Sunrise stationed about 18 nautical miles north of the platform, told Upstream the armed officers “wielded knives and started cutting the pontoons” of the five boats dispatched in the daring dawn enterprise on Wednesday.
He said gunshots were also fired into the air over the heads of protesters in the vicinity of the platform, which was “definitely not a safe thing to do”.
However,
