Stockholm:
Local weather activist Greta Thunberg has been charged with disobeying police throughout a June local weather protest in southern Sweden, media reported Wednesday, and most probably faces a positive.
In response to Sydsvenskan newspaper, the 20-year-old activist has been charged with “disobeying police orders” after refusing police directions to go away the location of a protest within the southern metropolis of Malmö in mid-June.
Ms Thunberg had joined the protest organized by the environmental activist group “Ta tillbaka framtiden” (Reclaim the Future) once they tried to dam the doorway and exit to Malmö harbor to protest the usage of fossil gasoline.
“We select to not be spectators, and as an alternative to bodily cease fossil gasoline infrastructure. We reclaim the longer term,” Greta Thunberg mentioned in an Instagram put up on the time.
The cost may result in a most of six months in jail, however prosecutor Charlotte Ottesen informed Sydsvenskan it usually leads to a positive.
A listening to on the Malmö court docket is scheduled for the tip of July, the newspaper mentioned.
Greta Thunberg was solely 15 when she began her “College strike for the local weather” in entrance of the Swedish parliament in Stockholm.
She and a small group of younger folks based the Fridays for Future motion, which rapidly grew to become a worldwide phenomenon.
Along with her local weather strikes, the younger activist often denounces governments and politicians for not dealing with local weather points correctly.
In late March, she denounced what she known as an “unprecedented betrayal” by leaders following the discharge of the most recent report from the UN’s local weather advisory panel, the IPCC.
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