Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been charged with disobeying Swedish law enforcement at a climate protest.
20 year old Other activists were arrested after stopping traffic at a protest in Malmö on 19 June, according to the local newspaper southern sweden Said. At the same time, he tweeted that the group stopped oil tankers at the port for the third consecutive day.
He added, “The climate crisis is a matter of life and death for countless people.” Tweet, “We have chosen to physically shut down the fossil fuel infrastructure. We are reclaiming the future.”
On Wednesday, Swedish prosecutors said a “young woman” had been charged with disobedience because she “refused to obey police orders to leave the scene.” Annika Collin, a spokeswoman for the Swedish Prosecution Authority, confirmed that the woman was Thunberg.
According to Sidesvenskan, the climate activist will now face trial at the end of the month for the crime. The charges carry up to six months in prison, but are usually punishable by fines, the prosecutor said.
thunberg She has become the face of the youth movement demanding climate action since her first strike at age 15, when she sat in front of the Swedish parliament every week for three weeks to protest the lack of action on the climate crisis.
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