2023-07-24 11:03:00
On June 19, the young Swede had, with other activists, blocked the access to the port of this city in southern Sweden in order to protest against the use of fossil fuels and refused to obey police orders.
She explained that she acted “out of necessity” in the face of the climate emergency.
In theory punishable by six months in prison – a sentence rarely pronounced in this type of case – the activist was sentenced to pay a fine of 1,500 crowns (130 euros) and 1,000 crowns in compensation.
According to the complaint, 20-year-old Greta Thunberg “participated in a protest that disrupted traffic” and “refused to obey police orders to leave the scene.”
That day, she had taken part in an action alongside the organization “Ta tillbaka framtiden”, in the port of Malmö, where the entrances and exits had been blocked by the immobilization of vehicles and tank trucks.
“We are choosing not to be spectators, and (…) physically shutting down fossil fuel infrastructure. We are reclaiming the future,” she said in an Instagram post at the time.
Prior to appearing in her first trial shortly after 11:00 a.m. (same HB) Monday, she also declined to answer reporters’ questions.
On the side of the organization “Ta tillbaka framtiden”, the determination to fight against the fossil fuel industry remains intact.
“We young people are not going to wait, but are going to do what we can to stop this industry that is burning our lives,” she added, claiming the mode of action of civil disobedience.
On a Friday in August 2018, the activist, 15 years old at the time and completely unknown, sat for the first time in front of the Swedish Parliament with her sign “School strike for the climate”.
In a few months, from Berlin to Sydney, from San Francisco to Johannesburg, young people followed suit and the “Fridays for Future” movement was born.
Beyond her climate protests, Greta Thunberg regularly attacks politicians and governments for their climate inaction.
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