Swiss climate activist set to serve time behind bars

Environmental activist Nicolas Presti will serve two months in prison from Tuesday. He chose time behind bars over paying a fine.

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. ...