Eco-zealots face trial for Optimus robot attack
Two eco-zealots filmed pouring orange liquid latex over Elon Musk’s Optimus robot at Westfield’s Tesla showroom denied criminal damage today (weds).
Catherine Nash, 74, and Nigel Fleming, 63, climbed onto the podium display at Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush and unfurled a Just Stop Oil banner.
They said: ‘Shut down the fascists! The government is failing to protect our democracy from fossil fuel companies and power hungry billionaires.
‘I will not stand by and let the climate crisis cause global food destruction, mass starvation and the collapse of civil society. Shut down the fascists.’
‘While the rich dream of Nazi robots and swasti-cars, what the rest of us need is warm housing, clean affordable energy and cheap public transport,’ they added.
‘Don’t let billionaires decide your future. Let’s reclaim democracy.’
Nash, of Castle Green Close, Westmorland and Furness, and Fleming, of Barnet, both denied criminal damage at Westminster Magistrates Court.
Jonathan Bryan, prosecuting, earlier told how the pair produced a ‘container of thick, opaque orange liquid which they tipped over a display robot.’
They then took off their jackets revealing JSO T-shirts and a banner.
Magistrate Jessica Marshall bailed the pair ahead of a plea and trial preparation hearing at Southwark Crown Court on October 22.
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