Climate activist Greta Thunberg was caught on digital camera being carried away by cops simply hours after being fined by a Swedish courtroom on Monday for failing to obey a police order to depart a local weather protest at an oil facility.

In courtroom, the 20-year-old admitted to the info associated to the protest which came about on June 19 within the southern Swedish metropolis of Malmö, however denied the cost, saying her actions "are justifiable".

Ms Thunberg argued the battle in opposition to the fossil gasoline business is a type of self-defence given the worldwide and existential risk posed by the local weather disaster.

But the courtroom rejected her argument and handed her a fantastic amounting to somewhat greater than £187 (2,500 Swedish Krona).

The activist informed reporters after the decision: "We cannot save the world by playing by the rules."

The younger girl added she would "definitely not" again down regardless of this ruling.

Charges have been introduced in opposition to Ms Thunberg in addition to different younger activists from the Reclaim the Future motion for refusing a police order to disperse after blocking highway entry to grease vehicles to a terminal within the Malmö harbour.

In an Instagram submit on the time, Ms Thunberg mentioned: "We choose to not be bystanders, and instead physically stop the fossil fuel infrastructure. We are reclaiming the future."

Following the decision, Irma Kjellström, a spokesperson for Reclaim the Future who was additionally current on the protest in June, mentioned the group stays decided to face as much as the fossil gasoline business.

She informed the AFP news company: "If the court chooses to see our action as a crime it may do so, but we know we have the right to live and the fossil fuels industry stands in the way of that."

Activists, she added, "have to be exactly where the harm is being done".

Ms Thunberg and the organisation demonstrated to be true to their phrases, as they returned to the oil terminal to stage one other roadblock simply hours after the decision.

Ms Thunberg has turn into one of the crucial outstanding faces of the youth local weather activism motion.

She rose to face in 2018, when she began skipping courses on Fridays to stage protests outdoors the Swedish Parliament.

Since then, many different college students and younger individuals around the globe began finishing up related protests of their international locations.