2024-02-01 19:10:00
Tried in London for disturbing public order, Greta Thunberg called on Thursday not to have the wrong “enemy”. She was arrested in October 2023, with 25 other environmental activists, for disrupting access to the Energy Intelligence Forum, a conference which brought together the main oil and gas companies in a luxury hotel.
Although we see her less than before in the media, she has not stopped demonstrating. “Even though we are the ones standing here,…environmental and human rights activists around the world are being prosecuted…for acting in accordance with science. We must remember who the real enemy is,” the 21-year-old Swede said as she left Westminster Magistrates Court, where her trial is due to end on Friday.
On October 17, 2023, she was part of the group of activists who tried to block access to the Energy Intelligence Forum, despite the police ban. They greeted the participants with “shame on you”. To the police, Greta Thunberg assured: “Behind these closed doors (…) politicians without stature conclude agreements and compromises with lobbyists from the destructive fossil fuel sector.”
Released under judicial supervision, the next day she took part in a new demonstration in front of the five-star hotel, with hundreds of other people. She risks a maximum fine of 2,500 pounds, or nearly 3,000 euros. Which does not seem to worry her more than rightly, since the young woman spent most of the hearing drawing on a small notebook and gave a few mocking smiles. She must testify on Friday, but already assures that “the climate fight is not a crime”.
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