43 people detained as activists try to send a message to President Obama in Denmark

43 activists detained sending message to Obama

COPENHAGEN — Police say they have detained 43 people in the Danish capital for public disturbance, some trying to hang a banner on a building along the route that President Barack Obama took to attend an IOC meeting.

Police spokesman Henrik Suhr says the others were detained elsewhere across Copenhagen on Friday for similar offenses close to the routes that Obama would take to visit Danish officials after addressing International Olympic Committee members, who will decide where the 2016 Games will be held.

Greenpeace says its activists tried to hang banners to tell Obama he should be in Copenhagen in December, not now. The United Nations is hosting a summit in December in the Danish capital aimed at reaching a global warming treaty.