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She additionally condemned the police’s actions, saying: “We won’t settle for the repression from Swedish police towards college students peacefully protesting towards a genocide.”
Thunberg, an activist finest recognized for her campaigning on local weather change, was arrested in Copenhagen final week throughout a pro-Palestine demonstration.
According to Swedish media, the Stockholm police have been alerted at 12:52 p.m. concerning the demonstrators, whose presence was seen as disruptive by the library workers who had requested that they protest exterior.
At 2:15 p.m., the police started to hold out the demonstrators who had not left voluntarily.
According to the police spokesperson Mats Eriksson, the eviction befell calmly. “Nine individuals are suspected of disobedience to regulation enforcement. One individual has been arrested when he refused to offer his identification,” he mentioned.
Thunberg has lengthy been a critic of Israel’s actions within the Palestinian territories and has voiced her help for the Palestinian trigger.
In October final 12 months, the Israeli navy criticized Thunberg after she voiced her help for Palestinians, following a Hamas assault that left round 1,200 folks dead. In December, she then accused Israel of committing “struggle crimes” and “genocide” because the Gaza offensive escalated.
Israel’s navy assault on Gaza has killed at the least 40,000 folks. The nation has known as authorized accusations of genocide by South Africa “false, outrageous and morally repugnant.”
