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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Michael McGowan

NSW police drop claim that protest involving Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco blocked ambulance

Deanna 'Violet’ Coco
Climate activist Deanna 'Violet’ Coco was arrested and jailed for 15 months over a protest that blocked the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

Police have backtracked on their claim that a climate protest on the Sydney Harbour Bridge last year blocked an ambulance with its sirens running from responding to an emergency, an assertion repeatedly referred to in the jail sentence of demonstrator Deanna “Violet” Coco.

On Tuesday Alan Glover and Karen Fitzgibbon, two of the four people co-accused of blocking the bridge during a climate protest last April, appeared before the Downing Centre local court for sentencing over the protest.

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