She is because of seem earlier than the courtroom within the southern Swedish metropolis at 0930 GMT.
The 20-year-old activist “took half in an indication that disrupted site visitors” and “refused to obey police orders to depart the positioning”, in line with the cost sheet seen by AFP.
She faces a most sentence of six months in jail, however prosecutor Charlotte Ottosen instructed AFP that normally some of these prices lead to fines.
The rally, organised by environmental activist group “Ta tillbaka framtiden” (Reclaim the Future), tried to dam the doorway and exit to the Malmo harbour to protest in opposition to the usage of fossil gas.
“We select to not be bystanders, and as an alternative bodily cease the fossil gas infrastructure. We’re reclaiming the longer term,” Thunberg mentioned in an Instagram publish on the time.
Thunberg shot to world fame after beginning her “Faculty Strike for the Local weather” in entrance of Sweden’s parliament in Stockholm on the age of 15.
She and a small band of youths based the Fridays for Future motion, which rapidly grew to become a world phenomenon.
Along with her local weather strikes, the younger activist usually lambasts governments and politicians for not correctly addressing local weather points.
Thunberg merely responded “no remark” to police questions concerning the Malmo rally, in line with a preliminary transcript seen by AFP.
Reclaim the Future insists that regardless of the authorized pressures, it stays unbowed in its dedication to face as much as the fossil fuels trade.
“If the courtroom chooses to see our motion as a criminal offense it might achieve this, however we all know we now have the proper to reside and the fossil fuels trade stands in the way in which of that,” group spokesperson Irma Kjellstrom instructed AFP.
Six members of the organisation could be showing in courtroom in Malmo, she mentioned.
“We younger persons are not going to attend however will do what we will to cease this trade which is burning our lives,” she mentioned, explaining the group’s plans for persevering with civil disobedience.
