BE- Greenpeace Activists

While we were exhibiting at the ESE 2008 in Brussels, a group of Greenpeace activist walked in the show wearing like the rest of us, around 200 of them, and blocked all the stands that were selling tuna fish. Our neighbours, a spanish company called “Ricardo Fuentes E Hijos” were one of their major target, more than 30 activists blocked the stand and screwed eveything upside down because this company was selling tuna from the Mediterranean.

All this started around 10:30, while the police arrived around 13:30 and had to deal with them. The activists also took control of the exhibition braodcasting room, and kept on sending their promotional messages inside all halls till the last one was taken away by the police.

Our booth was hurt because all visitors were really interested in what is going on with our neighbours, then when the police arrived, they blocked all around our stand with their red tape in order to take the activists away.

I have seen Greenpeace activists all my life on TV, but never in real life and few meters away from me. Check the news on their website.

The below 2 videos will show you exactly what happened, the first one is how they started their attack, then when the police arrived to take them away.