Greta Thunberg, a climate activist, was once more fined by a Swedish court on Wednesday for defying the law at an environmental demonstration in southern Sweden in July.
She was mandated to pay a 2,250 kroner ($206) fine by the Malmo District Court.
On July 24, Thunberg took part in an environmental demonstration at an oil terminal in Malmo, when demonstrators temporarily obstructed entry to the facility by sitting down and were removed by police. Thunberg had already been punished for a comparable infraction.
She was charged with disobedience to law enforcement on September 15 after she refused to leave the scene when police asked her to do so. Two armed officers then grabbed her and hauled her away.
The struggle against the fossil fuel business, according to 20-year-old Thunberg, was a sort of self-defense against the existential and worldwide threat posed by the climate crisis. Thunberg has acknowledged the facts but denied guilt.
”We have the science on our side and we have morality on our side. Nothing in the world can change that and so it is. I am ready to act based on the conditions that exist and whether it leads to more sentences,” she said after the verdict.
She was fined 2,500 kronor (about $230) on June 24 by the same court for failing to follow police orders while participating in a related demonstration the month before, during which she and others obstructed entrance to the same oil terminal days earlier and were later removed by police.
After beginning to hold weekly protests outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018, Thunberg sparked a global youth movement calling for more efforts to combat climate change.
