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She is due to appear in court in the southern Swedish city at 0930 GMT.
The indictment, seen by AFP, said the 20-year-old “participated in a demonstration that disrupted traffic” and “refused to obey police orders to leave the site”.
She faces a maximum prison sentence of six months, but prosecutor Charlotte Ottosen told AFP that these types of charges usually result in fines.
The rally, organized by environmental activist group Ta Tilbaka Vramtidin (Restore the Future), attempted to block the entrance and exit of Malmö’s port in protest of the use of fossil fuels.
“We choose not to be spectators, and instead actually stop our fossil fuel infrastructure. We’re reclaiming the future,” Thunberg said in an Instagram post at the time.
Thunberg rose to international fame after she began her “School Strike for Climate” in front of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm at the age of 15.
She and a small group of young people founded the Fridays for the Future movement, which quickly became a worldwide phenomenon.
In addition to her climate strikes, the young activist regularly criticizes governments and politicians for not addressing them properly climate issues.
Thunberg simply replied “no comment” to police questions about the Malmö rally, according to an initial transcript seen by AFP.
Reclaim the Future insists that despite the legal pressure, it remains unchanged from its resolve to take on the fossil fuel industry.
“If a court chooses to find our actions a crime, it may, but we know we have a right to live and the fossil fuel industry is standing in the way of that,” group spokeswoman Irma Kjellstrom told AFP.
It said six members of the organization would appear in court in Malmö.
“We young people will not wait but we will do everything we can to stop this industry that is burning our lives,” she said, explaining the group’s plans to continue civil disobedience.
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