A “Just Stop Oil” protester interrupted a match at the World Snooker Championship by jumping on the table and releasing a packet of orange powder.
A ‘Just Stop Oil’ protester jumps on the table and throws orange powder during the match between Robert Milkins and Joe Perry as part of the World Snooker Championship in England on April 17, 2023.A ‘Just Stop Oil’ protester throws orange powder on a table at the World Snooker Championship in England on April 17, 2023.On the other table, featuring a match between Mark Allen and Fan Zhengyi, a woman was stopped from getting onto the table by the quick-thinking response of referee Olivier Marteel.
Both protesters were taken away by security, but the incident forced a stoppage in play while the mess was cleaned up. Play resumed in the Allen-Zhengyi match about 45 minutes later but the affected table in the Milkins-Perry match was covered and will be re-clothed overnight. A decision was to be made later Monday regarding whether the Milkins-Perry match would resume following the conclusion of Allen-Zhengyi.
A ‘Just Stop Oil’ protester screams after throwing orange powder on a table at the World Snooker Championship in England on April 17, 2023.A ‘Just Stop Oil’ protester is removed after throwing orange powder on a table at the World Snooker Championship in England on April 17, 2023.Former world champion Stephen Hendry, who was on commentary duties for the BBC, said it was a “scary” incident and feared the cloth on the table might not be able to be used again.
“For me,” Hendry said, “straight away as a snooker player I am thinking, ‘Is the table recoverable?’ We don’t know what that is on the table.”“They are demanding that the government immediately stop all new UK fossil fuel projects and are calling on UK sporting institutions to step into civil resistance against the government’s genocidal policies,” the group said.
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