Police again remove Greta Thunberg from blocking Swedish parliament
Greta Thunberg is removed by police officers as she demonstrates outside the Swedish parliament building together with a group of climate activists in Stockholm, Sweden, March 13, 2024. Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency/via REUTERS
STOCKHOLM — Swedish police on Wednesday again forcibly removed Greta Thunberg and other climate activists who were blocking the entrance to parliament, driving them away in a police van for the second time this week.
Thunberg and dozens of other environmental campaigners on Monday began blocking the main entrances to Sweden’s parliament in a sit-down protest against the effects of climate change and what they said was political inaction.
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Police did not intervene at first, but removed the demonstrators when the protest resumed on Tuesday morning.
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Article continues after this advertisementThunberg, 21, became the face of young climate activists as her weekly protests, starting in 2018, in front of the Swedish parliament quickly grew into a global youth movement with large rallies across continents.
Stockholm police have said that although activists had the right to demonstrate outside the national assembly, they were removed for blocking entrances.
