Daily Mail

So who ARE eco protesters holding capital to ransom?

- By Jemma Buckley, George Odling and Sami Quadri

CARE WORKER

JANE augsburger, 54, from Stroud, Gloucester­shire, was one of those arrested for criminal damage outside Shell’s headquarte­rs on Monday.

Pictures show the mother- ofone grinning and kneeling down beside a smashed glass door at the front of the company’s office building. The care worker, a Jeremy corbyn supporter, previously lived in the Dordogne in a luxurious home with a pool.

PROUD PARENT

KATERINA Hasapopoul­os, 40, superglued herself to the Shell headquarte­rs on Monday.

Before her arrest, the mother-of-three said: ‘Shell is already responsibl­e for destroying lives in places like nigeria. Shell cares only for profit and I have three beautiful young girls who I want to see grow up to have a future.’

She has previously attended Stroud Town council to ask questions about climate change.

MOTORWAY MARAUDER

SIMON Bramwell, 46, also from Stroud, is a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, and a former builder. He was taken away in a police van after supergluin­g himself to the Shell HQ on Monday. He was part of a group of fanatics who brought the M4 to a standstill in protest at plans to expand Heathrow in 2016. The bush craft instructor said ‘hearing less birds’ convinced him to form a ‘punchier’ environmen­tal movement.

JET DISMANTLER

ANGIE Zelter, 76, was arrested yesterday and carried off waterloo Bridge after refusing to budge. The veteran protester has been arrested over 100 times across the world and describes herself as a ‘global citizen’. In 1996 she was part of a group that disarmed a BAE Hawk Jet, preventing it from being exported to Indonesia.

THE GODMOTHER

DR Gail Bradbrook, 47, is described as ‘ the godmother’ of Extinction Rebellion. She became an activist as a result of taking psychedeli­c drugs. Dr Bradbrook, who has a PhD in molecular biophysics, said drugs ‘rewired’ her brain and gave her ‘the codes of social change’. She holds ‘moon circles’ in a tepee, where she ingests mugwort.

THE BREAST BOOSTER

Zack Polanski, a Green Party candidate for the London assembly once claimed his hypnothera­py skills could help women grow bigger breasts. He said: ‘It’s so safe and cheaper than a boob job.’

PALACE RAIDER

Rowan Tilly, from oxford, was among protesters who took part in an ‘anti-nuclear raid’ at Buckingham Palace in 1993. The furniture maker compared her civil disobedien­ce to the actions of Gandhi, Martin Luther king and the suffragett­es.

ORGANIC FARMER

ROGER Hallam, 52, became interested in climate change in his 40s when an organic farm he ran in wales went bust because of bad weather. He now wants to ‘bring down all the regimes in the world’, starting with Britain.

THE ACTRESS

LAURA Reeves, an actress and artistic director from London, has previously lived in new York and worked for the united nations. Her show reel lists roles in adverts for River Island and nikuma Jewellery. She has also posted photograph­s of holidays in Peru and at the Burning Man festival in nevada, US.

 ??  ?? Simon Bramwell: Says he misses birds
Simon Bramwell: Says he misses birds
 ??  ?? Jane Augsburger: Lived in Dordogne
Jane Augsburger: Lived in Dordogne

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