‘Arrest Bill Gates’: Protesters Descend on Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation HQ – By Darragh Roche (Newsweek) / June 29 2021
Protesters in London called for Bill Gates to be arrested on Saturday as they gathered outside the U.K. headquarters of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of a larger protest against COVID-19 lockdown measures.
© Alex Wong/Getty Images Microsoft principle founder Bill Gates participates in a discussion during a luncheon of the Economic Club of Washington June 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. Protesters chanted “Arrest Bill Gates!” at a recent London protest.
Videos circulating on social media on Tuesday appeared to show dozens of protesters outside the Gates Foundation’s HQ in the British capital. They can be heard shouting “Arrest Bill Gates!” several times. Other social media users who were present at the protest also said demonstrators had been to the foundation’s HQ on Saturday.
Gates, the founder of Microsoft and a multibillionaire, has been at the center of unfounded conspiracy theories involving the COVID-19 pandemic and the development of a vaccine.
In the 19-second video, some of the protesters can be seen carrying anti-vaccine flags and some are holding placards.
