Several hundred motorists demonstrated in Helsinki on Saturday to demand lower petrol prices and, using their horns and hazard lights, signal their anger with Finland's climate policy.
The honking vehicles slowly rolled past parliament in the afternoon, footage from Finnish broadcasting company (Yle) showed.
Poliisille ilmoitettu mielenosoitus on päättynyt. Mielenosoitus sujui rauhallisesti ja poliisin ohjeiden mukaan maltillisesta liikennehaitasta huolimatta. Poliisin arvion mukaan mielenosoitukseen osallistui noin 460 ajoneuvoa. #poliisi #Helsinki
— Helsingin poliisi (@HelsinkiPoliisi) August 7, 2021
The demonstration was peaceful, police said, with estimated driver turnout at around 460.
The action was organized by a group the name of which roughly translates as 'Stop punishing drivers.'
The group opposes environmental measures that could pass higher costs onto consumers and rejects plans by Prime Minister Sanna Marin, a Social Democrat, to halve emissions from the transport sector by 2030 in order to protect the climate.
Eiks tää #torviprotesti ole jokseenkin vaarallinen? Eihän tästä ambulanssit läpi pääse. pic.twitter.com/6hczdkiizj
— Jesse Pitkänen (@jessepitkanen) August 7, 2021
