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 (Reuters) - 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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