Greta Thunberg will have to pay a small fine after being convicted of disobeying a lawful order of the authorities to stop blocking a road earlier this year, an outcome she has decried as “absurd”.
Those who burn fossil fuels should be in court, not those who fight against them, climate celebrity Greta Thunberg said today as she was handed a criminal record in a Swedish court for a protest action earlier this year. [emphasis, links added]
Thunberg was ordered to pay 50 kronor, or £3.75/$4.80 a day every day for 30 days. In all, the fine will add up to just £112, or $144.
It was previously reported she could have faced months of prison time, underlining the leniency of the fine.
The activist blocked traffic by sitting in the road with a group of other young people in the port city of Malmo in June, part of a series of disruptions over several days.
While police initially stood by and watched, eventually it was judged the disruption being caused was too great and the protesters were asked to leave.
Those who did not were carried away by officers, and charged with disobeying an order.
Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports that Thunberg was scathing of her conviction, meaning for the first time in years of protests she now has a criminal record.
She told the court on Monday that: “My actions are justifiable. I believe that we are in an emergency that threatens life, health, and property… We are in a climate emergency and we don’t want to wait for someone to act. We chose to block oil trucks.”
Speaking to a considerable gaggle of photographers waiting for her outside the court after the verdict, Thunberg criticized the prosecution, saying that oil companies are the true criminals.
She said, vowing to keep protesting: “It is absurd that those who act according to the science should pay the price for it… While those who burn the fossil fuels do not have to be held accountable.”
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So much for Time Magazines Person of the Year. Welcome to the Real World Greta Where realty is you geta fined for blocking traffic.
For once I agree with Greta but not the way she meant. Her crime should have had her doing time in jail not a measly slap on the wrist.
The Swedish court missed a great opportunity. If Greta had to spend time in jail, that would have sent a message to others who would break the law that it wasn’t a good idea. As usual Greta is talking about science where she is ignorant that science is against her.
Now that she has a criminal record, she can’t travel internationally. Pull her passport.
They need to start fining those Animal Rights Rebellion idiots pouring out the Milk fine their pants clean off and fine them some more
Its quite plain that Greta was never told to Stay Out of Traffic and look both ways before you cross the Street but the little Climate Beat just dose this for the M.S. Media its quite plain to see she is just a tool of the UN/CFR Globalists