This has to be one of my favorite scenes of all time. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was giving a speech in Finland. As she dealt with hecklers, she said to the crowd, “They can be happy that they are in a free country, like Finland, where free speech is a right. Where they have not any restrictions. If they would be in Moscow, they would be in jail in two minutes.”
“In Russia, you would be arrested”, von der Leyen tells a protestor as he’s being arrested. pic.twitter.com/kPxEyrrUI3
— Erik Dale ⚡ (@EuroDale) August 7, 2025
As she said this, the heckler was being arrested.