A 20-year-old protester, named Kai set his arm on fire in a horrific incident on a tennis court just before tennis legend, Roger Federer was due to play his last ever match at the 02.
Gatekeepers News reports that Kai, a member of the End UK Private Jets group, claims that ‘carbon emissions in 2022 are genocide’.
He interrupted the second set of a men’s singles match between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Schwartzman,
Kai lit himself on fire and grimaced as the flames licked his arm, but it did not appear to harm him. He rubbed his arm to put the flames out as he sat on the tennis court while security rushed over to grab him, eventually dragging him away.
Gatekeepers News earlier reported that Federer revealed earlier this month that the London tournament, the Laver Cup, would be the final competition of his career, having struggled with a series of injuries in recent years.
Federer received a standing ovation on the court before the final match of his 24-year-long career. He played alongside his long-term competitor for Team Europe against American duo Jack Sock and Francis Tiafoe.
The climate change activist lit himself on fire and grimaced as the flames licked his arm, but it did not appear to harm him.
He rubbed his arm to put the flames out as he sat on the tennis court while security rushed over to grab him, eventually dragging him away.
The man has appeared in several videos in the past explaining his hardline stance on climate activism.
A video was posted on Twitter by End UK Private Jets immediately after the stunt of Kai explaining why he was going to set his arm on fire.
He said, “In a few hours time I’m going to go to the Laver Cup tennis tournament and set my arm on fire on the court.
“People are gonna say stuff like ‘this is horrible’, people in the stadium are going to be disturbed, and anyone who hears about it is going to be really traumatised, especially if they’ve had experiences with things like self harm.
“Feelings of anger about this… I think it’s right to feel anger about that because it’s unjust, people experiencing suffering.
“Humanity should have a responsibility to stop that sort of s*** happening, no one deserves to experience suffering, especially not young and vulnerable people.
“If we truly believe that… the way we act like that’s true is by stopping the climate emergency as fast as possible.
“Because right now we’re on a path where hundreds of millions of people are going through unimaginable suffering which is social collapse, torture, starvation, drought and war and s*** like that.”
