Greta Thunberg charged after joining eco mob in protest outside London hotel
Greta Thunberg is among 26 people charged over a protest outside a central London hotel.
Greta Thunberg has been charged after she joined a mob of environmental campaigners at a protest in London.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed the young protester has been charged with a public order offence after a protest outside a central London hotel on Tuesday, October 17.
Thunberg is among 26 people charged following the protest organised by Fossil Free London to disrupt the Energy Intelligence Forum.
The conference was being held at the InterContinental London hotel in Park Lane, near Hyde Park.
In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said Thunberg, whose address was given as Dorset, has been charged with failing to comply with a condition imposed under Section 14 of the Public Order Act.
Footage shows several officers detaining 20-year-old Thunberg, who was sporting an 'Oil Money Out' badge.
Addressing journalists outside the hotel, Greta, 20, warned oil and gas companies are deliberately slowing the global energy transition to renewables in order to make more profit.
The Swedish campaigner said: “We cannot let this continue. The elite of the oil and money conference, they have no intention of transition.
“Their plan is to continue this destructive search of profits. That is why we have to take direct action to stop this and to kick oil money out of politics.
“We have no other option but to put our bodies outside this conference and to physically disrupt. And we have to do that every time, we have to continue showing them that they are not going to get away with this.”
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She and others were bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on November 15.
The full list of people charged
The following people were charged with obstructing the highway:
Miranda Splitt, of Newcastle upon Tyne
Diana Jellinek, of Somerset
Daniel Oldfield, of Lewisham
Harry Holmes, of Waltham Forest
Rodrick Cobley, of Waltham Forest.
The following people were charged with failing to comply with a condition imposed under Section 14 of the Public Order Act:
Bas Sprurjt, of Somerset
Craig Vaz, of Somerset
Leon Edwards, of Dorset
Lars Joseph Christofer Kebbon, of Dorset
Greta Thunberg, of Dorset
Joshua Unwin, of Hitchin
Richard Baxter, of Bristol
Peter Joseph Barker, of Powys
Emma Follett, of Godalming
Jeff Michael Rice, of Nottinghamshire
Audley Burnett, of Carmarthenshire
Marcus Hugh Bailie, of Caerphilly
Scott Henry, of Brighton
Heather Inman, of Haringey
Katie Burrell, of Lambeth
Oliver Etchells, of Lewisham
Thomas Plessius, of no fixed address
Nancy Clarke, of Alton
Samantha Lucas, of Oxfordshire
Julie Hermann, of Lambeth
Sandra McGee, of Nisbet in Scotland.
One woman, who was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage, has been bailed pending further enquiries.