Greenpeace - direct action to protect whales
At 9.44 this morning, the Norwegian whaling vessel Kato located in the North Sea, shot at a Greenpeace inflatable with a rifle. Luckily, no one was injured but the bullet punctured the pontoon of the inflatable. At the time of the shooting, the Greenpeace inflatable was engaged in a peaceful protest against Norwegian whaling. The vessel Kato had just harpooned a whale when they fired the shot at the Greenpeace inflatable. The two Norwegian Coast Guard ships on location watched passively as the inflatable was hit by the bullet.
"It is quite frightening to know that the Norwegian Coast Guard are more concerned with protecting Norwegian whaling than with human life", says Frode Pleym, Norwegian whale campaigner. "The Coast Guard has a duty to enforce the law equally, not to protect whaling interests."
