Just Stop Oil protesters interrupt Wimbledon with confetti and puzzle pieces

Protesters with the environmental activist group Just Stop Oil interrupted play at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships on Wednesday by throwing orange confetti and jigsaw pieces on the court. 

The two demonstrators ran onto the court during the match between Sho Shimabukuro and Grigor Dimitrov and threw "environmentally-friendly orange confetti glitter and jigsaw pieces onto the courts, before being removed," Just Stop Oil said.

The game was paused while the pieces were picked up and then the game was halted again by rain. 

"I’m here for my grandchildren and everybody else’s. I’m not prepared to let our politicians wreck everything and leave the next generation to pick up the pieces," protester Simon Milner-Edwards, a 66-year-old retired Manchester musician, said. 

The other protester, 68-year-old retired London teacher Deborah Wilde, said: "I’m just an ordinary grandmother in resistance to this government’s policy of serving us new oil and gas licenses. In normal circumstances this sort of disruption would be entirely unacceptable, but these aren’t normal circumstances."

Just Stop Oil, which is demanding for the United Kingdom to stop all new licenses and consents for oil, gas and coal, has disrupted other major events, including the London Pride March and The Ashes cricket series.

Madeleine Hubbard is an international correspondent for Just the News. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram.