Greta Thunberg has faced international condemnation for saying world leaders should be “put against the wall” in a speech.
She made the shock comment while addressing a Fridays For Future protest in Turin, Italy.
In English the phrase is associated with execution by firing squad, but Ms Thunberg said it had a different meaning in her native language Swedish.
“That’s what happens when you improvise speeches in a second language.”
She said she feared the summit alone would not lead to adequate climate action, and that activists should continue to take world leaders to task.
Thunberg thundered:
“World leaders are still trying to run away from their responsibilities, but we have to make sure they cannot do that.
We will make sure that we put them against the wall, and they will have to do their job to protect our futures.”
There was outrage over this phrase which usually means to execute people by firing squad and she said in an apology:
“Yesterday I said we must hold our leaders accountable and unfortunately said ‘put them against the wall’.
That’s Swenglish: ‘att ställa någon mot väggen’ (to put someone against the wall) means to hold someone accountable.
Of course I apologise if anyone misunderstood this. I cannot enough express the fact that I – as well as the entire school strike movement – are against any possible form of violence. It goes without saying but I say it anyway.”
Thunberg was recently named Time magazine’s youngest ever Person of the Year. Many still question the veracity and accuracy of her claims and question the globalist funders behind her.
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