An anti-HS2 campaigner has been arrested after voluntarily leaving tunnels dug in secret by activists near Euston station in London.
A group of at least six people has spent more than a week beneath Euston Square Gardens as part of a protest over the impact of the planned high speed railway.
A spokesman from HS2 Ltd said on Friday night: “One of the illegal trespassers has voluntarily left the underground tunnel this evening, and we urge the others to follow.
“On-site paramedics offered immediate medical assistance, which was refused.
“The trespasser was then arrested by the Metropolitan Police and taken to a London hospital as a precaution.”
LONDON, U.K. Underground in a tunnel dug near one of central London s busiest roads, Blue Sandford says she is ready for anything. The 18-year-old has become the most prominent face of a protest against the construction of a high-speed rail link that has earned her comparisons to Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. As bailiffs tried to get her and fellow protesters out from under Euston Square Gardens, she vowed to make their eviction as difficult as possible. They ll have to follow us, she told AFP by mobile phone from inside the tunnel, speaking above the sound of bailiffs sawing nearby.
The son of a island-owning millionaire Scottish laird turned anti-HS2 eco-warrior has locked himself inside a tunnel below Euston Square Gardens as bailiffs dig their own shaft as part of efforts to remove at least six activists who have spent eight days underground.
The demonstrator, known as Lazer , attached himself to the bottom of a tunnel using a device made of steel and concrete around his arm.
The HS2 Rebellion group estimated today it would take several hours before the device around his arm could be removed. A second one is attached round his ankle.
Lazer is believed to be called Lachlan Blaze Sandford, 20. He is pictured in images alongside his Laird father Roc Sandford, who refers to him as his kids in a video of their actions at a precious Extinction Rebellion protest.