Swedish police on Tuesday (12/3) forcibly removed Greta Thunberg and a number of other climate activists who were blocking the entrance to parliament for a second day, and chased them away in police cars.
Two policemen lifted Thunberg and dragged her about 20 meters from the door she had blocked before setting her down.
Stockholm police said although activists had the right to demonstrate outside parliament, between five and 10 people had been expelled for blocking the entrance.
They declined to comment on specific individuals. Thunberg and dozens of other environmental activists began blocking the main entrance to Sweden's parliament on Monday in a protest over the impact of climate change and what they said was political inaction.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg blocks the entrance to the Swedish Parliament during a protest in Stockholm, Sweden March 11, 2024. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency/via REUTERS)
The activists left on Monday afternoon but returned to protest on Tuesday morning. Thunberg, 21, became an icon of youth climate activism when her weekly protests, which began in 2018, in front of the Swedish parliament quickly grew into a global youth movement with massive demonstrations across the European continent.
Last year Thunberg was detained by police or expelled from protests in countries including Sweden, Norway and Germany. A British court last month acquitted him of public order offenses after a judge ruled that police did not have the authority to arrest him and other demonstrators at protests in London last year. (ab/ns)