Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has become a political tool in the Danish election campaign. The party Danmarksdemokraterne proposes an entry ban for foreign activists participating in illegal demonstrations, citing Thunberg as an example. Party leader Inger Støjberg has publicly criticized her on Instagram.
In the ongoing Danish election campaign, set to occur in less than three weeks, the party Danmarksdemokraterne has targeted foreign activists. Party leader Inger Støjberg, known as one of Europe's most restrictive politicians on asylum and immigration policy, posted a photo on Instagram on Wednesday holding a sign reading 'Danmark är inte din lekplats, Greta Thunberg'.
The same day, the party proposed an entry ban for foreign activists entering Denmark to participate in illegal demonstrations. Støjberg commented to TT: 'She apparently lives in an activist fantasy world.' She added: 'It is precisely types like her (Thunberg) that our proposal targets. Unruly youth whose only purpose is to cause trouble,' and stated that they should face harsher punishments.
Thunberg responded by calling Danmarksdemokraterne 'racists,' according to Berlingske. In a written statement to the newspaper, she said: 'If Danish politicians spent less time complaining about people trying to stop their involvement in the climate crisis, genocide, and neocolonialism, and instead actually addressed these existential problems that these racists actively contribute to, people like me would not have to protest.'
The conflict's background involves Thunberg's prior actions in Denmark. In September 2024, she was arrested by Danish police during a protest against the war in Gaza, where she and other activists briefly blocked a building at the University of Copenhagen. The previous year, she participated in an occupation and blockade of shipping company Mærsk's headquarters in Copenhagen.
