The Finnish environmental group Elokapina is preparing for another demonstration in Helsinki on Friday, with plans to block a busy highway intersection in the Ruoholahti district.
Friday's demonstration is the second of three protests the group has planned this week, and scheduled to begin at 3pm at the intersection of Porkkalankatu and the Länsiväylä motorway.
Elokapina, the Finnish branch of Extinction Rebellion, held a protest at the same site last year.
The group's first protest this week took place on Tuesday, which included the participation of Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who joined up to 2,000 other demonstrators in a march into downtown Helsinki, where they blocked rush hour traffic after an event in front of Parliament House.
Thunberg and at least dozens of other protesters were removed from the street and detained by Helsinki police.
According to Elokapina, while Tuesday's protest received widespread media coverage, the protest did not result in their demands being met. The group said it wants a direct answer about why the government spends a large amount of state funds on activities are detrimental to the environment.
Officer suspected of assault at earlier protest
This week's protests are part of Elokapina's ongoing Storm Warning (Myrskyvaroitus in Finnish) campaign, which the group has said it hopes to become the largest series of civil disobedience demonstrations in Finnish history.
A previous Elokapina protest on 11 June blocked rush-hour traffic in the Kaisaniemi district, prompting police to clear demonstrators from the street.
Days after the protest, the Helsinki Police Department announced that it had opened an investigation about the conduct of a police officer during the demonstration, after a video posted on social media appeared to show an officer pushing a climate activist to the ground.
On Thursday, the prosecutor's office announced that it had opened a preliminary investigation into the incident. The prosecutor said the officer was suspected of assault.
The protester was not injured in the incident.
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