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		</div><p>Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has apologised for saying politicians should be put “against the wall”, after critics took it to mean that she was advocating violence.</p>
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<p>The 16-year-old Swede made the comment in a speech to young activists in the Italian city of Turin on Friday.</p>
<p>Ms 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.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yesterday I said we must hold our leaders accountable and unfortunately said “put them against the wall”. That’s Swenglish: “att ställa någon mot väggen” (to put someone against the wall) means to hold someone accountable.<br />That’s what happens when you&#8230; (1/2)</p>
<p>&mdash; Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1205862132308488193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>“That’s what happens when you improvise speeches in a second language.</p>
<p>“But of course I apologise if anyone misunderstood this,” she wrote on Twitter on Saturday.</p>
<p>Ms Thunberg told the crowd in Turin that world leaders were running away from their responsibilities to fight climate change.</p>
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<p>“We have to make sure that they cannot do that,” she said.</p>
<figure id="attachment_146344" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-146344" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-146344" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/DF0C8C3B-DF8D-46ED-98DB-433AC28C7E93.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="770" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-146344" class="wp-caption-text">Greta Thunberg holds a sign reading in Swedish, School Strike For The Climate</figcaption></figure>
<p>“We will make sure they, that we put them against the wall, and that they will have to do their job and to protect our futures.”</p>
<p>The expression “putting someone against the wall” in Swedish describes a situation when someone is forced to address difficult questions or a difficult situation.</p>
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<p>But some right wing voices on social media interpreted her comment as a call for violence against politicians.</p>
<p>She tweeted that she and the youth movement she inspired is against all forms of violence.</p>
<p>“It goes without saying but I say it anyway,” she wrote.</p>
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