2023-07-25 01:46:28
A Swedish court has imposed a fine on Monday against the activist Greta Thunberg for disobeying police orders during a protest held last month in the port of the city of Malmo, although she has once again defended her actions due to the “climate crisis” that the world is going through.
The court has fined Thunberg 30 daily fines at the rate of SEK 50 per day and an additional fine of SEK 1,000, which she must pay to a fund for crime victims in Sweden.
The court has imposed 30 daily fines on Thunberg at a rate of 50 Swedish crowns per day (for a total of about 130 euros), as well as an additional fine of one thousand crowns (around 86.5 euros) that must be paid to a fund for victims of crimes in the European country, as reported by the newspaper The evening paper.
The world is experiencing a “climate emergency”
During the hearing on Monday, Thunberg stressed that her actions in the port of Malmo, where protesters blocked the transit of oil tankers, were “justifiable”. “I think we are in an emergency that threatens life, health and property,” he argued.
“Countless people and communities are at risk in the short and long term,” he stressed, before emphasizing that the world is going through “a climate emergency.” “We don’t have to wait for someone to act. We chose to block the oil tankers,” she wrote.
Subsequently, he has branded the sentence as “absurd” once out of court and has criticized that “those who act in line with science have to pay a price for it” while the fossil fuel industry can burn present and future “.
“We have no laws to protect us from soul-destroying greed and we allow it to continue unleashed on the world. We have no choice but to continue to break the rules. It is the rules that need to be changed. We will not back down,” Thunberg said, adding that she will not appeal the verdict.
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