Climate activists sentenced for Zurich bridge blockade

The Swiss Federal Court has sentenced three climate activists for a bridge blockade in Zurich. The three were present in 2020 when the Extinction Rebellion group paralysed the Quai Bridge. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox On a Saturday afternoon in June 2020, car and tram traffic on the Quai Bridge came to a standstill for several hours. Around 300 climate activists sat down on the road and tram tracks to draw attention to global warming. Many of them deliberately wedged themselves in with their arms and legs so that they had to be "untangled" by the police and dragged away. The Federal Court has now sentenced three of them in the last instance, as can be seen from the judgements published on Friday. The cases involve two women and one man. The Federal Court convicted all three of them of coercion – because people had to accept a diversion – as well as disrupting operations that serve the general public. This refers to the tram service, which was blocked ...