Swiss climate activist set to serve time behind bars
Bois-Mermet prison in Lausanne (archive photo 2009)
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Environmental activist Nicolas Presti will serve two months in prison from Tuesday. He chose time behind bars over paying a fine.
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Nicolas Presti, co-founder of the Renovate Switzerland movement, will become the first environmental activist to serve a custodial sentence in Switzerland for taking part in non-violent civil disobedience, reports Le Matin Dimanche.
He was convicted of property damage after filming two other activists pasting the IPCC report on a government building in Lausanne in 2021.
While his comrades lodged an objection and won their case, the 30-year-old has decided to let the legal process run its course.
The man from Vaud refuses to pay the CHF1,800 ($2045) fine that would save him from prison and wants to make his detention a symbolic act.
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