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full screen The climate activists, among other things, got into the Hällarydsmossen and started to dig back the ditches. Archive image. Photo: Mikael Fritzon/TT
A group of climate activists was charged with illegal trespassing and damage to peat bogs. Now they are acquitted by the Eksjö district court with reference to the common law, Smålands Dagblad writes.
Last summer, the six climate activists entered two peat bogs in Sävsjö municipality.
The activists, who have denied any crime, have admitted that they participated in a climate action which, by digging up the ditches, aimed to prevent runoff and thereby stop further oxidation and emissions.
The district court acquits them of unlawful trespassing, citing that the marshes are places “in which, with the support of common law, in principle you have the right to stay”, writes Dagens Juridik.
They are also acquitted of damage as the land they moved, according to the district court, cannot be considered destroyed.
The court notes that the right of access does not entail the right to interfere with legal activities that are carried out on the marshes, but that “the possible arbitrariness they have committed is not contained in the prosecutor’s description of the act”.