Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg was charged with disorderly conductafter they were arrested on Tuesday during a protest parallel to an oil and gas industry conference in London, police announced this on Wednesday.

Demonstrations against the hydrocarbon industry continued this Wednesday in the British capital, in front of the hotel hosting the Energy Intelligence Forum conference. The young woman, 20 years old, She was released under judicial supervision and is due to appear in a London court on November 15, the police statement said.

The activist for the defense of the environment He was one of 26 people charged for the demonstration. Greta Thunberg will be prosecuted for failing to comply with police orders not to block the street where this protest against the forum took place, in a hotel in the elegant Mayfair district, where the leaders of the main hydrocarbon companies meet.

The environmental activist is lavish with these types of blocking actions. A few days ago he was fined by the Swedish authorities for a similar incident in Malmö. And in January, police forcibly removed her from an anti-coal demonstration in Germany.

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Protests on Wednesday

Tuesday morning, before his arrest, Greta Thunberg had criticized the fact that “behind these closed doors (…) politicians without stature make agreements and commitments with people from the lobby of the destructive fossil fuel sector.”

Demonstrations continued on Wednesday, with 100 people welcoming conference participants with shouts of “shame on you” and holding up banners reading “Stop Rosebank,” a controversial oil field in the North Sea that counted last month with the permission of the U.K. government for its exploitation.

Environmental group militants Extinction Rebellion also demonstrated in the heart of the city this WednesdayLondon’s economic district, in front of the offices of the sector’s market insurer, Lloyds, according to a press release.

Greta Thunberg is accused of disobeying authority during a protest in Sweden

About 20 protesters from Fossil Free London, another environmental group, staged a sit-in to block the entrance to the TotalEnergies headquarters in the Canary Wharf shopping district, lighting yellow flares and chanting “Oil money out” or “Total stop.” other slogans.

The CEO of Saudi company Aramco, Amin Nasser, reaffirmed at the conference his view that “new investments” in hydrocarbons are needed to reverse the decline of aging oil fields. Shell’s Wael Sawan, in turn, defended that his company is ‘trying to guarantee energy security’.

But at the same time, he added, “we want to participate in the energy transition by investing between $10,000 and $15,000 million over the next three years.”

Sawan spoke via video conference as he was unable to gain access to the hotel due to the demonstration. (JO)