This is the incredible moment eco-activists stormed the grand finale of the Swedish version of Strictly Come Dancing before a quick-thinking cameraman dramatically put a stop to their stunt.
Climate activists from the protest group Restore Wetlands took the stage with powder paint and a banner, disrupting a performance during Friday night’s final of Let’s Dance on TV4.
Olympic skier Charlotte Kalla was dancing the paso doble with her professional partner Tobias Karlsson when a man and a woman launched themselves in front of the couple as hundreds of thousands watched at home.
But a cameraman was having none of it and decided to take out the protesters by dropping an overhead camera on the male protester’s head, with the force of it knocking him to the ground.
The protesters were then rushed out of the studio, and three people were later questioned by police on suspicion of vandalism.
Climate activists from the protest group Restore Wetlands rushed onto the stage during Olympian skier Charlotte Kalla’s performance, dropping paint and pulling out a banner.
Climate activists from the protest group Restore Wetlands rushed to the stage with powder paint and a banner.
A camera suspended on a crane swings towards a protester after he stormed onto the Let’s Dance stage
The stage invasion was caught on camera from several different angles, including video shot by the activists themselves.
Capture the moment activists jump out of their chairs in the audience before running onto the stage.
One activist pulls out a bag of yellow powder paint while the other holds a banner reading “restore wetlands.”
In an entry he may not have seen coming, the male protester is taken out by a cameraman, who swings his camera suspended from a crane at him.
The weight of the equipment makes the activist fly, and the images from the camera itself show their full force.
Set attendants then rushed the group off the dance floor, later filming themselves storming out of the studio after their stunt.
The activist who threw paint on the stage was named as 30-year-old Tina Kronberg Berggren, who has also campaigned for Extinction Rebellion in the past.
She had been seated in the audience with her fellow campaigners before launching onto the stage as the performance began.
The male protester unfurled a banner reading Restore Wetlands before the camera panned to him.
The activists were rushed off the dance floor by on-set attendees, one of them covered in paint.
Tina Kronberg Berggren filmed herself sitting in the audience before running onto the dance floor.
The activists later filmed themselves storming out of the studio after their stunt.
In a statement translated from Swedish, the activist explained why she organized the protest: “We want nothing more than to have fun and I also love to dance. But my future will be anything but fun-filled.
“The situation is very urgent and we cannot sit in the audience and just watch when our lives are threatened by climate breakdown.”
TV4 viewers missed most of the drama on Friday night, but videos from inside the studio show the camera panning towards the activists from above.
Cross-country skier Kalla, who is Sweden’s most decorated Olympian with three gold medals, was praised by the judges for not letting the ordeal hold her back from her final performance.
He was a finalist in the contest on Friday night, losing the win to YouTuber Hampus Hedström.
Roxy Farhat, a spokeswoman for Restore Wetlands, confirms that they are behind the campaign. The goal is to draw attention to what they say is a climate disaster.
The activist who threw paint on the stage was named as 30-year-old Tina Kronberg Berggren, who has also campaigned for Extinction Rebellion in the past.
“We are headed for a climate meltdown and our politicians only make the crisis worse by failing to act. We are the last generation that has the chance to stop this project of death,’ he said.
“We’ve been protesting for 30 years, but the politicians don’t care,” he added, explaining why the group had switched to less orthodox forms of protest.
Charlie Forsberg, TV4’s director of communications, is reported to have said after the incident: ‘Several people arrived on stage. It was handled by on-site personnel and police were quickly called to the recording, who drove them from the scene.
This is not the first time that Restore Welands has appeared on a major live television event.
Eurovision champion Loreen’s performance of her winning song Tattoo, during Melodifestivalen in Malmö, was interrupted when an activist ran onto the stage.
Loreen was forced to sing her song again. An activist from the same movement burst onto the stage during the final of Idol on TV4.
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