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Sweden: Greta Thunberg protests in front of parliament again

2021-06-12T06:44:02.195Z


With the corona pandemic, the global climate strikes by schoolchildren also largely came to a standstill. Initiator Greta Thunberg has now finished her "home protest" and is back on the streets.


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Greta Thunberg in front of the parliament in Stockholm last September

Photo: Fredrik Sandberg / TT / imago images / TT

The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is back at her traditional place of protest in front of the parliament in Stockholm.

Equipped with her sign reading "Skolstrejk för klimatet" (School strike for the climate), the climate and environmental activist met with a handful of supporters in front of the Reichstag in the Swedish capital on Friday.

Pictures that the 18-year-old student published on Twitter in the morning show the protesters at a distance from one another.

Thunberg wears mouth and nose protection with the Fridays for Future logo.

The Friday school strike is in the 147th week, Thunberg said.

“We're back in front of Parliament.

But the pandemic is far from over, so we will keep our numbers as low as possible and follow local restrictions. "

In front of the Reichstag in August 2018, the young Swede began to demand more climate protection from politicians with an initially solitary protest.

From this, the climate movement Fridays for Future and major international protests with hundreds of thousands of participants had developed within a few months.

The corona pandemic made such mass protests impossible for a long time.

Instead of pulling in front of parliament, Thunberg had mostly put pictures of himself and her protest sign at home online on the past Fridays.

Once, at the end of March, she sat in front of the EU Commission's Representation in Stockholm to protest against the EU's common agricultural policy.

At the end of April, she also published a picture of herself in a deforested forest in central Sweden.

fek / dpa

Source: spiegel

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