Greta Thunberg charged with disobeying police during climate protest: report – National | 24CA News
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, 20, has reportedly been charged with disobeying a police order in her residence nation of Sweden after she was photographed being hauled away from a local weather protest by two officers.
The incident occurred on June 19, when a bunch of younger local weather activists blocked oil tankers from driving down a highway on the port of Malmo, a metropolis in southern Sweden. Thunberg wrote in an Instagram publish that day saying demonstrators had blocked the highway for 3 days.
“The climate crisis is already a matter of life and death for countless people. We choose to not be bystanders, and instead physically stop the fossil fuel infrastructure. We are reclaiming the future,” she wrote alongside images of younger individuals sitting in a line alongside a highway.
Local each day newspaper Sydsvenskan was the primary to report that Thunberg had been charged by police in reference to the demonstration.
Police informed the outlet that about thirty vans have been prevented from driving down the highway. When police deemed the protest was inflicting an excessive amount of of a disturbance, they ordered that protesters transfer their demonstration to a close-by garden.
“Everyone was informed individually and it was also filmed by a police officer when this was done,” the police exterior commander in command of the scene informed Sydsvenskan.
Four of the 9 protesters who have been blocking the highway refused to maneuver, together with Thunberg. Photos taken on the scene present two law enforcement officials escorting Thunberg arm-in-arm away from the highway. One picture confirmed the 20-year-old local weather activist’s ft absolutely off the bottom as she was hauled away.
If convicted for disobeying a police order, Thunberg could be handed a tremendous or as much as six months in jail. At least one different local weather activist was additionally charged in Malmo district courtroom, Sydsvenskan reported.
“You have the freedom to demonstrate, but you must not demonstrate in such a way that it causes disturbances for others,” prosecutor Charlotte Ottosen mentioned, in accordance with Sydsvenskan.
The Swedish central prosecutor’s press workplace couldn’t instantly verify the report. Thunberg’s representatives couldn’t be reached.
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