A court in Denmark has handed down 14-day suspended sentences to eleven Greenpeace activists, including the former director of Greenpeace España, Juan López de Uralde, who gatecrashed a gala dinner at a climate change summit in Copenhagen in December 2009.
López de Uralde was amongst four activists who managed to bypass security to enter the gala hosted by Queen Margrethe of Denmark to unfurl a banner reading ‘Politicians Talk, Leaders Act’. The four had posed as the ‘head of state of the Natural Kingdom’, his wife, his bodyguard and chauffeur.
The then-Greenpeace España chief and his colleagues spent 20 days on remand before they were released with charges.
The prosecutor had applied for a two-year sentence, but reduced the request to at least 60 days at the hearing on Friday. He also applied for a ban the eight non-Danish nationals from returning to Denmark for six years, although that was turned down by the judge in the ruling made public on Monday.
An offence against the Queen, as the host of the banquet, was also turned down by the court.
A fine of 75,000 Kroner was imposed on Greenpeace Nordic.
Juan López de Uralde and other activists were arrested after breaking through security at the December 2009 summit in Copenhagen
