The sole purpose of police is to protect the investments of the rich.

it appears that some members of the group decided to enter the construction site “with violence” anyway, forcing the police to intervene and leading to their arrest

Absolutely no evidence that the protest "turned violent". Entering a construction site is obviously not violence. Breaking in is not violence either. Even destroying it would not be violence. Violence happens to people.

This protest is a continuation of the action that started last Friday, where protesters breached the Microsoft data center, which was being owned by Pure Data Centers. It is also the first of many organized by the “Stop Dirty Data Centers” coalition across Europe, with actions planned for Amsterdam, Dublin, Warsaw, Denmark, and several other cities across the continent.

Fossielvrij’s action was supposed to be peaceful, but it appears that another group joined the demonstration and broke through the fences around the site, leading to the police confrontation. The suspects were arrested for domestic violence and then taken to a cell complex, where it will be decided if they will be detained longer.

Perhaps their machine translation was imperfect, but I wouldn't call trespassing 'violence', even if it involves breaking a fence.

Fox News is going to try to tie this to today’s outage.

If you're going to be arrested and charged with being violent (when being peaceful), fucking make it count. YTF are 200 people waiting peacefully for pigs to arrest them? They won't be able to breathe in their homes from a data center power plant being installed next door.

on suspicion of trespassing

it appears that some members of the group decided to enter the construction site “with violence” anyway, forcing the police to intervene and leading to their arrest.

How much do you wanna bet that said "violence" was against inanimate objects and thus vandalism rather than violence?

I'd wager that any ACTUAL violence against actual people was perpetrated by the cops. That's how it usually goes.

It is also the first of many organized by the “Stop Dirty Data Centers” coalition across Europe, with actions planned for Amsterdam, Dublin, Warsaw, Denmark, and several other cities across the continent.

TIL that my country has been relegated to city status 🤔

Things turned violent when Microsoft chose to profit off of enabling the Palestinian Genocide with their Azure infrastructure, not when protestors of this lost their cool.

Several large tech companies, including Palantir, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, have contracts with the Israeli military and provide support for its operations in Gaza; a few are starting to reconsider accepting Israeli money. Facing pressure from shareholders and investors, in September 2025 Microsoft blocked Israel’s access to the Azure cloud platform, a surveillance program that Israel has used to collect data on Palestinians. Israel will instead rely more heavily on Google and Amazon. In 2021, the tech giants signed a cloud data storage contract with Israel called “Project Nimbus” for $1.2 billion, a deal that involved a workaround to violate both their own terms of service and legal guidelines, leading some Google employees to protest and to resign in response. Palantir has denied that it was involved in developing the AI targeting systems “Lavender” and “Gospel” that Israel has used to intentionally strike Palestinians at home with their families. In October 2024, Norway’s largest asset manager divested its $24 million in Palantir shares due to concerns about Palantir’s partnership with Israel. But other than Microsoft, tech corporations have maintained their lucrative contracts with Israel.

https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/who-profits-us-corporations-and-the-whitewashing-of-israels-genocide-in-gaza/