Greta Thunberg apologizes for 'against the wall' comment
Share
Tweet
December 15, 2019
MADRID (AP) — Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has apologized for saying politicians should be put "against the wall" after critics took it to mean that she was advocating violence.
The 16-year-old Swede made the comment in a speech to young activists in the Italian city of Turin on Friday.
Thunberg later said she was making a literal translation from Swedish, in which the expression means to put someone on the spot with tough questions.
"That's what happens when you improvise speeches in a second language. But of course I apologise if anyone misunderstood this," Thunberg wrote on Twitt...
For access to this article please
sign in or
subscribe.
Reader Comments(0)