Greta Thunberg “Could Face Six Months in Prison”
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been charged with disobeying police in Sweden last month during a port blockade and may face six months in prison. The Telegraph has the story.
Ms. Thunberg, 20, joined a group of young protesters as they stopped oil tankers from entering and exiting the port in Malmö.
On Wednesday, the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan reported that she was detained on June 19th, along with an unspecified number of other activists, for refusing to leave the scene when asked to do so by officers.
She could face up to six months in prison or a fine if convicted.
Ms. Thunberg had joined the demonstration organised by environmental activist group Ta Tillbaka Framtiden (Reclaim the Future) to protest against the use of fossil fuels.
“We choose to not be bystanders, and instead physically stop the fossil fuel infrastructure. We are reclaiming the future,” she said in an Instagram post at the time.
A short statement issued by Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday said a “young woman” was being charged with disobedience because she “refused to comply with police orders to leave the scene” during the protest.
The statement did not identify the woman, but Annika Collin, a Swedish Prosecution Authority spokesman, confirmed that it was Ms. Thunberg.
Sydsvenskan reported that she will be called to trial at the end of July.
Prosecutor Charlotte Ottosen told the paper that the crime of disobedience is typically punishable with fines.
Typically punishable with fines, but perhaps they will make an exception in this case, pour encourager les autres. We can hope.
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6 months in a Swedish prison (where you get your own key and can invite people around for sex) would seem ideal if you wanted her to remain “relevant” in the dreadful media-class speak. It will give her time to write her version of “Mein Kampf”
Every religion needs its martyrs
What an insufferable twat.
Just ignore her, stop making a bloody martyr of her.
At most, force her to mine some lithium for a couple of weeks in the Congo.
Excellent idea.
And a machete-wielding local to watch over her.
I agree. If the normal penalty is a fine, and she has broken the law, then fine her. 6 months jail seems excessive given that crimes of violence so often carry very light penalties, at least in the UK.
The right to protest must be sacrosanct, but there should be no right to obstruct. I think the best way to deal with obstructors is to forcibly remove them, using minimal force and with maximum calm.
As I’ve said before, I don’t know why she hasn’t moved to some place in Africa or some other place where the per capita carbon footprint is low because there are lots of poor people and sunny weather. All those who fret about “carbon” should do the same. Africa and other poor places have plenty of space and could do with skilled workers, as long as they are prepared to live in shacks, endure power outages, poor healthcare, poor quality manufactured goods, crappy roads, lack of public transport infrastructure.
She isn’t in the UK – UK law is irrelevant.
Yes, I am not stupid and I realise that. I am making an assumption that the situation in Sweden is similar. Of course I may be wrong, but it seems like a reasonable assumption to me and in addition scenario may well happen here at some point, for example with some of the JSO lot.
The right to protest must be sacrosanct, but there should be no right to obstruct.
Protest is about expressing one’s (usually dissenting) opinion in public with the intent to sway public opinion in a certain way and the ultimate goal to extert an influence on the legistature to get laws for or against something passed. Once passed, organs of the state are responsible for enforcing compliance with these laws which might include use of violence to stop people from breaking laws or make them comply with it. To a limited degree, citizens may usually also employ such violence in emergency situations but they’re not ordinarily allowed to take the law in their own hands.
There’s no law against oil tankers entering or exiting Swedish ports, hence, the Gretna and the accomplices of her puppet handlers are illegally employing violence in order to stop other people from engaging in lawful activities these so-called activists happen to disapprove of. This comparable to a bunch of radical vegans storming a private barbecue party in order to liberate the steaks (and fight against climate change at the same time, obviously). This is not protest.
Indeed. It’s obstruction combined with protest I suppose, which doesn’t excuse it. My point about protest being sacrosanct is because of a worry that laws stopping obstruction could be used to stop protests where obstruction is a transient by product rather than the aim – for example, the anti lockdown protests attracted hundreds of thousands of people and would have caused temporary inconvenience to road traffic along the route of the march.
Shouting For the many and not the few! while gatecrashing someone’s barbecue party in order to liberate the steaks does not turn this action into political protest.
Just consider how absolutely peaceful anti- lockdown protests in the UK were policed.
Spare a thought about the anti- “experimental gene therapy” mandates heros at Speakers’ Corner (inconveniencing nobody) were policed, with the most junior plods able to hand out £10,000 fixed penalties.
Remember how those who conspired to occupy and close down Ratcliffe Power Station, committing a string of illegal acts and causing actual criminal damage were, not only freed but paid compensation because a Special Branch ‘plant’ officer shagged another protester without mentioning that, er, actually he was a copper.
Don’t forget all the judges and magistrates imposing minimal fines or even discharging climate ‘activists’, have stated how much they agree with their heroic actions.
Then come back and tell us how Greta would be treated for blocking oil tankers in the UK.
A Royal Pardon at least!
I’m sure you are right but much as I consider that woman my enemy, I think a 6 month custodial sentence for a first offence of obstruction is excessive. Obstruction should be punished but I think it’s better to prevent it by forcibly removing them in the least dramatic way possible. Of course we know that’s not going to happen.
Pretty sure the Peter Pan of the Garbage Pail Kid world ( will she always look 12yrs old? ) would approve of this lunatic concept. I think only those with suicidal tendencies would think this is a good idea;
“The EU will support international efforts to assess comprehensively the risks and uncertainties of climate interventions, including solar radiation modification,” according to the document.
SRM has been heavily advanced by globalist powers like the World Economic Forum (WEF). The WEF has suggested both stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), which involves releasing sulfates into the atmosphere, as well as “bubble” launches.
“MIT scientists say ‘space bubbles’ could help reverse climate change by reflecting the Sun’s heat away from Earth,” said the WEF in a video last year. “Scientists say cutting out just 1.8% of the Sun’s rays would fully reverse global warming.”
“The bubbles would be manufactured in space by robots. They would form a ‘raft’ about the size of Brazil. This would be placed at a Lagrange point,” the video continued. “That is, a point in space where the Sun and Earth’s gravity balance each other out. This would keep the raft fixed in position.”
https://frontline.news/post/governments-consider-blotting-out-sun-to-fight-climate-change
Firkin hell. Away with the fairies doesn’t come close.
The UN and WEF will not allow this twerp to go to prison, and instead will get her lined up for her own eco socialist chat show where some of her star guests will include Nicola Sturgeon talking about pouring concrete in gas wells, and John Kerry, Bidens “Special Envoy” for climate absurdity on his visits to China for some totalitarian lessons. On next weeks show will be the guy who “used to be the next President of the USA” (Al Gore) Stay tuned for more eco propaganda often referred to as “science”.
More Telegraph clickbait, sadly there is no chance that Saint Greta will be sentenced to 6 months in jail.
The arrest was totally fake.. rehearsed. She was laughing and joking with the cops until filming started seriously. I’ve got a video of it. The original vid now appears to have vanished from the internet.. how strange..
The BBC reported this morning that she was carried away by Police LOL! So they haven’t seen the video where she is laughing and joking with the Police as they pose for the cameras and decide how to “carry her away”, or did they simply ignore it? The whole thing was staged! She’ll get no sentence and most likely be praised for her acting skills and nominated for an Oscar!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11650101/Greta-Thunberg-seen-laughing-German-police-posing-pictures-detained.html
Different ‘protest’, different Country.
But I have no doubt that the Swedish coppers will have been as bad.
Better than threatening a £10,000 fixed penalty, raping and murdering Sarah Everard by a cop nicknamed “the rapist”. That’s what happens in the UK.
Whilst senior officers ask those glued to a key trunk road “Are you all comfortable? Say if you need anything!”
In my opinion obstruction and protests such as those we have seen at sporting events are terrorism. They are designed to intimidate and goad people. They hope for a violent reaction. Groups such as Just Stop Oil must be proscribed as terrorist groups and treated accordingly with their donors assets being seized.
They are, in no way, practising free speech: they say nothing, they damage things and disrupt things, they intimidate people and they threaten to do so at every event going. That is not freedom of speech and surely the majority on here are not stupid enough to think it is.
I concur with that.
She’s passed her sell by date. She was a gift to male and pale climate emergency as the young, dynamic, androgenous rabble rouser of the impressionable teen and pre-teen. Her Scandinavian background is attractive. Her name was easy to say and easy to remember, (theres only one Greta to anyone who has never seen a 1930’s or 40’s film.) Her work is done. Millions of brains seeded with ‘how dare you’ alarmism that most will never return to common sense.
‘How dare you?’
I dare because I care about my grandchildren’s future.
Not sure if the above was too convoluted.
For the avoidance of doubt:
‘How dare you?’ is an accusation she shouted out at a ‘UN Climate Action summit’ complaining about lack of ‘action’.
I dare not to support ‘Climate Action’ because I do not believe it to be necessary and I don’t want my grandchildren to have to pay for the insanity being foisted on us by government and supra-government net-zero rubbish.
It would be just if Greta and her ilk died in poverty like her victims will.
The woman belongs in a loony bin.
She’s not the Messiah. She’s a very naughty girl.
She’s just the child of rich socialists. Meh.
She could use the time to study GCSE Physics.
Her hole in the ozone might be useful inside. Just saying
She would continue to get paid whether in prison or not and probably her salary would double with bonuses for the increased exposure.
Guantanamo Bay?? Rehabilitation Centre of childhood trauma ??
One day, she will see what her parents have done to her.