The 20-year-old activist -- a key face of the movement to fight climate change -- was among 26 people charged by the capital's Metropolitan Police, after she was held at Tuesday's demonstration.
Several hundred protesters had gathered outside the InterContinental London Park Lane hotel during the"Oily Money Out" demonstration, organised by pressure groups Fossil Free London and Greenpeace, blocking all entrances to the venue. "The protesters were asked to move from the road onto the pavement, which would enable them to continue with their demonstration without breaching the conditions," a police statement said.
Josie, an organiser with Fossil Free London, told AFP the company was"funding the East African Crude Oil Pipeline" and that their CEO had been at the meeting of energy industry figures where Thunberg was detained. Another activist, Lauren MacDonald, from the Stop Rosebank group which campaigns against oil and gas production in Britain's largest undeveloped field, joined around 100 protesters outside the forum.
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