Climate activist Greta Thunberg was found guilty by a Swedish court after refusing to follow police orders during a protest at an oil facility last month.
Swedish news outlets reported that Thunberg’s charge originated during a June 19th protest when she and a dozen other activists blocked the road to an oil port.
Police ordered them to clear the road, but Thunberg and some of her fellow activists refused.
She appeared at the Malmö District Court where she denied guilt and claimed her protests were a form of self-defense due to the existential threat posted by climate change.
“It’s correct that I was at that place on that day, and it’s correct that I received an order that I didn’t listen to, but I want to deny the crime,” she said.
“We are in an emergency that threatens life, health and property.”
She was ultimately found guilty and ordered to pay over €200 in fines, or roughly $220 dollars.
“We cannot save the world by playing by the rules,” she told reporters after the verdict, declaring she would “definitely not” back down despite the charge.
Just hours later, she and activists from the Reclaim the Future movement headed back to the oil terminal to stage another roadblock.
She was physically carried away from the site by police officers.
A spokesman for Reclaim the Future, Irma Kjellstrom, also spoke to reporters.
“If the court chooses to see our action as a crime it may do so, but we know we have the right to live and the fossil fuels industry stands in the way of that,” she said in a statement to AFP News.
Thunberg gained notoriety as a high school student when she began staging “school strikes” outside of the Swedish Parliament.
She sparked a worldwide school strike for climate change movement in 2018 and was invited to the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit, where she delivered her now-infamous “How dare you?” speech.
Apparently, Greta missed out on a few science classes when she was skipping school and running her mouth at the rest of us.
I have been on this planet a LOT longer than she has, so I guess I must know more than she obviously does…and she has been fed lies from the very beginning.
Poor thing…she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.