Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was deported from Israel on a flight to France on Tuesday, after being detained by the Israeli army, along with other activists, including Brazilian Thiago Ávila, aboard a humanitarian aid ship to the Gaza Strip.
But this is not the first time the activist has been detained by the authorities. Thunberg, 22, has been arrested during environmental protests and social causes in London, Brussels and Copenhagen.
Remember the trajectory:
Personal life and beginning of activism
Born on January 3, 2003, in Stockholm, capital of Sweden. She is the daughter of Swedish actor Svante Thunberg and Opera singer Malena Ernman. The young woman was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, which is part of the autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), and speaks openly about the condition.
The activist has already said she is inspired by school strikes in the United States following the attack on fire in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, to hold her own demonstrations.
In 2019, he was recognized as Time magazine’s personality, becoming the youngest person to win the title. Greta has also published books, among them the works “No one is too small to make a difference”, “The Climate Book: The Facts and Solutions” and “Our House is on Flames: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis.”
Timeline
August 2018 – Thunberg begins to miss classes to organize protests in front of the Sweden Parliament, holding a sign that says “Skolstrejk För Klimatet”. Soon, others come together and the group decides to continue the strike, forming the Friday for Future (FFF) movement.
December 2018 – Greta gives a speech on COP24, the UN conference to the climate in Poland, telling the negotiators: “You are not mature enough to tell things as they are. Even this burden you leave to us children. But I don’t care about being popular. I worry about climate justice and the planet alive.”
January 2019 – The activist makes a makeshift speech to the delegates of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
April 2019 – Greta meets with Pope Francis after his weekly Vatican hearing.
August 2019 – It arrives in New York to speak at the UN climate action summit, after navigating the Atlantic Ocean for 15 days in a sailboat with zero emissions, to reduce the environmental impact of your trip.
September 16, 2019 – Thunberg gathers with former US President Barack Obama in Washington, DC.
September 18, 2019 – Thunberg speaks before the US Congress before an audience on climate change. She talks about the special report of the intergovernmental panel of climate change on global warming, which recorded an increase in 1.5 ° C above pre-industrial levels.
September 20, 2019 – The activist participates in a climate strike in New York, part of a global stoppage organized by Thunberg and other students. According to her, 4,638 protests were scheduled for 139 countries from 20 to 27 September.
September 23, 2019 – Greta speaks in the UN climate action summit. “We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and we only talk about money and tales of eternal economic growth,” Thunberg told the UN General Assembly. Later on this day, Thunberg and 15 other children filed a UN complaining that five of the world’s top economies violated their human rights by not taking adequate measures to contain the climate crisis.
December 3, 2019 – Thunberg arrives in Lisbon, Portugal, for the 25th United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Madrid, Spain, after almost three weeks traveling through the Atlantic Ocean in a boat that uses solar panels and hydrogers to generate electricity.
December 6, 2019 – The activist criticizes the world leaders gathered for COP25 in Madrid for not doing enough to wage the ecological crisis.
January 2020 – In an Instagram post, he announces that he is requesting a trademark for his name and the Friday for Future movement. When requesting a brand, something she says she has no previous interest in doing, she intends to protect her movement and her activities.
February 2020 – Thunberg finds the Pakistani activist for Malala Yousafzai education at Oxford University.
September 2021 – The young woman speaks at the Youth4Climate forum in Milan, Italy, imitating world leaders and repeating her common expressions about the climate crisis, calling them empty words and unfulfilled promises.
November 2021 – Leading a youth protest in front of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Thunberg criticizes world leaders and calls the summit “failure.”
January 2023 – Greta is detained by the German police in a protest against the expansion of a coal mine in the village of Lützerath in western Germany. She is released later that night. A police spokesman said to CNN That this was the second time Thunberg had been detained at the scene.
March 2023 – According to an Oslo Police District spokesman, 10 people, including the Swedish activist, were removed by police from the Norway Ministry of Finance. Protesters blocked access to Norwegian government buildings to protest against two wind farms built in Sami reindeer pasture areas.
July 2023 – A Swedish court fine Thunberg after considering it guilty of disobedience to the law, a spokesman for the Malmö Municipal Court told CNN. Thunberg was accused of the “crime of disobedience to the law and order” in early July, after participating in a protest on June 19 that blocked oil ships in part of the port of Malmö. It was fined a total of 2,500 Swedish crowns (about $ 240).
October 2023 – Thunberg is arrested in a protest in front of the Energy Intelligence Forum, an annual dome that brings together chief executives from oil and gas companies, and later accused of offense to public order. She was acquitted on February 2, 2024.
June 2025 – The “Madleen”, bound for Gaza and transporting Thunberg and other activists, is intercepted by Israel and moved in the Israeli Port of Ashdod, according to the Foreign Ministry of Israel. On June 10, on a flight to France.
