06/04/2021 (Agence Europe) – Between 30 and 40 young Kurds from Germany climbed the gates of the Council of Europe’s Agora building in Strasbourg shortly after 1 pm on Monday, 5 April, and managed to enter the courtyard. Driven out by the police with tear gas, the demonstrators then kept their distance and shouted slogans in Kurdish demanding the release of Abdullah Öcalan. The leader of the “Kurdistan Workers’ Party” (PKK, an armed political organisation that the European Union has classified as a “terrorist” organisation) has been an inmate on the prison island of Imrali, south of Istanbul, since 1999. The demonstration dispersed around 1:40 pm. Two demonstrators were arrested. An action of this kind had already taken place inside the Agora building in February 2019, leading to the conviction of 17 participants. (VL)