Greta Thunberg charged after blocking Sweden oil port for second time
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wedish local weather activist Greta Thunberg has been charged with disobeying a police order on Friday, lower than two months after she was convicted and fined for a similar offence.
Ms Thunberg, 20, was fined 1,500 Swedish crowns (£108) by a Swedish court on July 24 for failing to leave a climate protest when ordered by police.
Straight after the decision, the activist and others from the environmental group Reclaim the Future blocked the highway for oil vans in Malmo harbour and had been once more forcibly eliminated by police.
“The demonstration did not have a permit and it led to the blocking of car traffic. The woman refused to obey the police command to leave the scene,” prosecutors stated in an announcement.
She might face a harsher sentence if convicted a second time. Failure to obey a police order carries a most sentence of six months in jail.
The 20-year-old grew to become the face of younger local weather activists worldwide after staging weekly protests in entrance of the Swedish parliament.
The prices come as tens of hundreds of local weather activists world wide are protesting all through the weekend to name for an finish to the burning of fossil fuels.
The motion is happening in dozens of nations and in tons of of cities worldwide, together with in Sweden.
Greta Thunberg pictured blockading a harbour in Malmo in local weather change protest
/ REUTERSProtesters on Friday gathered in entrance of Parliament, simply subsequent to the Royal Palace the place Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf was celebrating his fiftieth anniversary on the throne.
Their chants about “local weather justice” could possibly be heard within the palace courtyard because the king watched the altering of the guard in the course of the golden jubilee celebrations.
In a separate demo in Quezon City within the Philippines, activists lay in entrance of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in protest, and held indicators demanding fossil fuels be phased out.
Last week, the United Nations warned that international locations are means off monitor to curb warming to 1.5 levels Celsius since pre-industrial occasions, as agreed in Paris in 2015.
Over the previous few months, Earth broke its day by day common warmth report a number of occasions, whereas July was the most popular month ever on report.