Greta Thunberg has been fined twice earlier than in Sweden. (File)

Stockholm:

A Stockholm courtroom fined local weather activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday for disobeying police orders after blocking entry to Sweden’s parliament throughout a protest.

Police eliminated Thunberg on March 12 and 14 after she refused to depart the principle entrance, the place she was protesting with a small group of activists for a number of days. MPs may nonetheless entry the constructing through secondary entrances.

The courtroom mentioned it fined the activist 6,000 Swedish kronor ($551) and ordered her to pay 1,000 kronor in damages and curiosity.

Thunberg denied the costs of two counts of civil disobedience, based on an AFP journalist on the listening to.

Requested by the decide why she had not obeyed police orders, she replied: “As a result of there was a (local weather) emergency and there nonetheless is. And in an emergency, all of us have an obligation to behave.”

“The present legal guidelines defend the extractive industries as an alternative of defending individuals and the planet, which is what I consider ought to be the case,” she mentioned as she left the courtroom.

Thunberg has been fined twice earlier than in Sweden, in July and October 2023, for civil disobedience throughout related protests.

In February, a London decide dropped prices towards her for disturbing the peace throughout an illustration towards the oil business in October within the British capital.

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