Prosecutors have charged local weather activist Greta Thunberg with disobedience to regulation enforcement in reference to a protest in Malmö, Sweden, final month.
Native newspaper Sydsvenskan reported Wednesday that Thunberg and different activists have been detained after they stopped visitors within the oil terminal of the port in Malmö on June 19.
A brief assertion by Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday stated a “younger lady” was charged with disobedience as a result of she “refused to adjust to police orders to depart the scene” throughout the protest. The assertion did not determine the lady, however Swedish Prosecution Authority spokeswoman Annika Collin confirmed that it was Thunberg.
Sydsvenskan stated the 20-year-old Swedish activist might be referred to as to trial on the finish of July. Prosecutor Charlotte Ottosen advised the paper that the crime of disobedience is often punishable with fines.
Thunberg’s media group did not instantly reply a request for remark.
Protests have been a necessary a part of Thunberg’s local weather activism since she rose to worldwide prominence in 2018 when she was 15 years previous, and she or he has been detained by police a number of occasions prior to now.
In January, whereas protesting a coal mine in Germany, video footage confirmed three law enforcement officials choose her up and carry her by her legs and arms away from a sit-in. In February, Thunberg and different activists blocked the entrance to Norway’s vitality ministry in Oslo to protest a wind farm they are saying hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous folks to lift reindeer in Arctic Norway.
Since she gained consideration for her activism, Thunberg has appeared earlier than legislatures, celebrities and even the Pope to talk about local weather points. Scientists additionally named a beetle after the local weather activist.
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