STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been charged with disobeying a police order to leave a climate protest in the southern city of Malmö on June 19, according to the daily Sydsvenskan.
On the day of the incident, Thunberg wrote in an Instagram post that protesters had blocked the road for oil trucks in the port of Malmö.
“The climate crisis is already a matter of life and death for countless people. We have chosen not to be bystanders and to physically shut down fossil fuel infrastructure. We reclaim the future,” she had declared.
If found guilty of disobeying a police order, Thunberg could be fined or sentenced to six months in prison.
“You have the freedom to protest, but you must not protest in a way that disturbs others,” prosecutor Charlotte Ottosen said, according to Sydsvenskan.
The Swedish central prosecutor’s press office could not immediately confirm the information when contacted by Reuters for comment. Representatives for Thunberg could not be reached.
(Reporting by Johan Ahlander; Editing by Devika Syamnath)