Sergeio and Wenzel were arrested in Brisbane CBD for a non-violent protest – as part of the Extinction Rebellion campaign – on Monday morning and have now been through court. The police prosecutor laid 3 charges against Wenzel and 4 against Sergeio, both pleading guilty to all charges.
Restrictive bail conditions were laid against Sergeio and Wenzel that prevented them from participating in an upcoming protest, Defy Disaster, on December 10th in Post Office Square.
Wenzel said to the magistrate: “I will not accept bail conditions that take away my right to protest or move around this city freely.”
Wenzel and his mate parked a rented truck across a central Brisbane street and held up morning traffic for two hours.
Tell us more about your right to “move around this city freely”, kid.
Sergeio (real name Eric Herbert) also declined bail:
“We will suffer with honour for our generation and our children,’’ Herbert said.
If local Extinction Rebellion trash are genuinely into suffering, they should follow the example of British Extinctionists and select for their next protest a location where police protection is not immediately available.
This is how things worked out for ER protesters last year at Canning Town station in London’s East End:
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Suffer with honour, climate munchkins:
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