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‘Not Going to Back Down’: Greta Thunberg Faces New Trial Over Swedish Protest
Euronews ^ | 18/09/2023 | Rosie Frost

Posted on 09/18/2023 12:45:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Disobeying a police order can carry a maximum sentence of up to six months in prison in Sweden.

Greta Thunberg has been charged with disobeying a police order, just months after she was convicted for the same offence.

The Swedish climate activist was fined 2,500 Swedish krona (around €200) in July for not leaving a protest when ordered to by police.

She admitted during court proceedings that she had disobeyed a police order but pled not guilty, saying she was acting out of necessity.

Thunberg told reporters at the Malmö district court that it was “absurd that those who act in line with science should pay the price for it”.

When asked if she would be more cautious after the fine, she said that climate protesters were “definitely not going to back down”.

Just hours after the verdict, Thunberg and other activists from ‘Ta tillbaka framtiden’ or Reclaim the Future returned to Malmö harbour and blocked a road for oil trucks in protest of fossil fuel use.

The activists, including Thunberg, were again forcibly removed by authorities.

In a statement, prosecutors said this demonstration on 24 July “did not have a permit” and had disrupted traffic to the busy port. They add that the climate activists “refused to obey police orders to leave the site”.

“This is therefore a case of refusal to comply."

The second trial is scheduled for 27 September and Thunberg could face a harsher sentence if convicted for a second time. In Sweden, failure to obey a police order can carry a maximum sentence of six months in prison.

‘The world is watching’: Leaders set to kickstart climate ambitions at UN summit next week Fridays for Future: Greta’s school strikes led a third of Swiss citizens to change their habits Why did protesters block the harbour in Malmö? Starting on 15 July, Reclaim the Future staged a multi-day protest blocking roads to the port of Malmö in the south of Sweden and preventing tankers from entering or leaving.

The group said that it was a “peaceful resistance to the fossil fuel industry that threatens the future of young people”.

Around 20 members of Reclaim the Future - including Thunberg - returned to Malmö in July and were once again carried off by police.

“The climate crisis is already a matter of life and death for countless people,” Thunberg said in an Instagram post on the day she joined the first Malmö protest.

“We choose to not be bystanders, and instead physically stop the fossil fuel infrastructure. We are reclaiming the future.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal
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To: nickcarraway

She needs to be tased. 100,000 volts would wipe that smirk off her face in a hurry.


21 posted on 09/18/2023 1:07:28 PM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: nickcarraway

She should come to the US, where left-wing protestors can do whatever they want with little or no consequences.


22 posted on 09/18/2023 1:07:29 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They called he modern day Joan of Arc.

It’s a cult religion.


23 posted on 09/18/2023 1:11:10 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway

Reminds me of AOC who pretended to be in handcuffs with cops for sympathy. Then lied (as usual) and said it was a pose to show how to keep police from hurting a suspect as they walked. Yeah.


24 posted on 09/18/2023 1:13:01 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: nickcarraway

Photo of the perp....

As an officer I would have slumped down to the ground in pain and said she hit me and grabbed me as I twisted away from the camera view. Then sued the freak.


25 posted on 09/18/2023 1:14:36 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: EvilCapitalist

I’m not real sure that is a “smug look”, to me it looks more like a DOWNS SYNDROME look.

Go on line and type in Downs Syndrome; take a look at the kids who were born with it, some of these kids function at a higher level than others, our little Gretta might be one of those.

Downs children are easily manipulated by the people around them and can be quite stubborn in an inculcated world view.

Bear in mind that both her parents are nothing more than asshole hippie types.


26 posted on 09/18/2023 1:24:43 PM PDT by 5th MEB
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To: nickcarraway
What date was it?

June 2023

27 posted on 09/18/2023 1:27:37 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: nickcarraway
Greta Thunberg Faces New Trial Over Swedish Protest

I guess that court conviction retarded her disorderly activities.

28 posted on 09/18/2023 1:28:15 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: 5th MEB

One other thing about her parents; from what I have seen and read they are both very manipulative hippie assholes!


29 posted on 09/18/2023 1:29:23 PM PDT by 5th MEB
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To: Bounced2X

Greta 2065! Looks like Mickey Rooney - (old timers know who that is). Mickey Rooney was a better actor than Griper Thunberg (and better looking than her).


30 posted on 09/18/2023 1:30:57 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: roadcat
Greta 2065! Looks like Mickey Rooney - (old timers know who that is).

Oh, I remember him. Kinda resembles a younger him now. ;O)


31 posted on 09/18/2023 1:44:12 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Because she’s a self-smug leftist moron, normally I would. Instead I pity her because clearly there is something very wrong with her. I have the sense that within ten years she’s going to end badly like many child stars do.


32 posted on 09/18/2023 1:44:25 PM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: EvilCapitalist

“Am I the only one who hates that smug look on her face?

She feels immune from the rules the rest of society must follow because her cause is just and the cause and her pimping for it make her more important than the rest of us.

I’m reminded of a nun who, during the Vietnam war was protesting nukes and got into the inner workings of a nuclear plant. She was giving a prison sentence as I think the government was tired of dealing with her. We can only hope this happens to the entitled little b****,


33 posted on 09/18/2023 1:55:54 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: nickcarraway

Breaking the law is breaking the law. It has nothing to do with your cause.


34 posted on 09/18/2023 2:19:41 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: nickcarraway

Glue her to a museum wall and leave here there.


35 posted on 09/18/2023 2:23:09 PM PDT by x
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To: EvilCapitalist

NO!!!


36 posted on 09/18/2023 2:25:53 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: JayGalt

Pathetic little girl!


37 posted on 09/18/2023 3:10:34 PM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: EvilCapitalist

“Am I the only one who hates that smug look on her face?”

Thorazine


38 posted on 09/18/2023 4:09:32 PM PDT by DAC21
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Did this window licker take the short bus to court?


39 posted on 09/18/2023 4:32:04 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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