Has Greta discovered love? The long-haired, former public schoolboy, 22, who is a relentless by means of Thunberg’s aspect

Climate activist-turned Gaza protestor Greta Thunberg has struck up an in depth friendship with a tender photographer who has grow to be her consistent better half on a few of her contemporary demonstrations.

Long-haired Chris Kebbon, 22, rushed ahead to provide Greta a lingering hug when she arrived bedraggled at Stockholm Airport on Tuesday after being arrested and deported by means of the Israeli government.

The photographer and videographer has been at Greta’s aspect for a lot of the ultimate 18 months and used to be snapped swimming within the sea off Catania, Sicily together with her and others, in a while prior to she set sail on her disastrous ‘Freedom Flotilla’ undertaking to Gaza.

Chris, who, like Greta herself, lives in a leafy middle-class suburb of Stockholm, is a skilled surfer, who says on-line that he has lived in Syria, Lebanon and Morocco along with his circle of relatives.

His Titanic-style picture of Greta, draped within the Palestinian flag at the prow of the Barcarole, renamed Madleen for the travel, which used to be intercepted by means of the Israeli Navy in global waters, has grow to be the emblem of her ill-fated travel.

Along with 11 others, she used to be arrested and in spite of her much-mocked claims to were ‘abducted’, she used to be detained by means of the Israeli government and placed on an El Al flight to Paris, in spite of her ‘no fly’ coverage on account of the wear and tear to the surroundings.

The 22-year-old seemed baggy and drained as she sat behind the El Al jet from Ben Gurion to Paris, with an image appearing her protecting her head with the hood of her anorak.

In a separate clip shared on social media, the pilot can also be heard praising the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).

The photographer and videographer has been at Greta’s aspect for a lot of the ultimate 18 months

Chris Kebbon, 22, rushed ahead to provide Greta a lingering hug when she arrived bedraggled at Stockholm Airport on Tuesday after being arrested and deported by means of the Israeli government

‘We wish to thank our safety forces and the IDF for safeguarding our place of origin and need for the swift go back of all hostages,’ he says, to applause and cheers from different passengers.

When Greta in the end arrived again in Stockholm, Chris, wearing a inexperienced Palestinian Keffiyeh on his shoulders, sprang ahead to embody her in a protracted hug once she got here into sight within the arrivals corridor or Arlanda Airport.

After a couple of exchanged phrases, he ushered her against the ready media and acted as an impromptu safety guard, preserving over-enthusiastic supporters again.

Kebbon used to be Greta’s co-defendant at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in February 2024 the place the pair have been cleared of a public order offence after protesting outdoor a London resort the place the Energy Intelligence Forum used to be website hosting oil and fuel business leaders.

He describes himself as a photographer for social and local weather justice actions. He remained with Greta in Sicily till she set sail and took dozens of pictures of her, together with the ones during which she is noticed at the prow of the Barcarole.

Other snaps display her donning a lifejacket, wearing out an emergency evacuation and joking round throughout the boat. He wrote on Instagram that they have been ‘ultimate calm moments in combination prior to departure stuffed with love, care and foolish moments.’

Chris Kebbon instructed Swedish newspaper Vi after the pair have been first arrested in London that his apprehensive oldsters did not sleep again house within the Stockholm suburb of Liljeholmen once they heard not anything from him.

He, alternatively, concept that having noticed the inside track that Greta were arrested, they will have to have put two and two in combination and realised the similar destiny had befallen him.

Chris, who, like Greta herself, lives in a leafy middle-class suburb of Stockholm, is a skilled surfer, who says on-line that he has lived in Syria , Lebanon and Morocco along with his circle of relatives

Kebbon used to be Greta’s co-defendant at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in February 2024 the place the pair have been cleared of a public order offence after protesting outdoor a London resort the place the Energy Intelligence Forum used to be website hosting oil and fuel business leaders

He describes himself as a photographer for social and local weather justice actions

Greta Thunberg enjoys a second of refreshment and a laugh within the waters of San Giovanni Li Cuti harbor, in Catania, with Chris

He confided that prior to the pair left, his father had instructed him to do no matter he sought after ‘so long as you do not get arrested.’

Yesterday, Chris’s mom Sara with politeness refused to reply to questions on her son and Greta Thunberg when MailOnline known as on the circle of relatives’s massive enforcing indifferent space, the place his father Erik, 54, is registered as boss of a internet manufacturing corporate.

Chris, who attended the distinguished Lycée Français St-Louis in Stockholm, which strangely in Sweden, fees a nominal annual tuition price of round £1,200, focussed on movie and images, in keeping with his on-line CV.

Greta’s one-girl protests and Friday faculty moves outdoor the Swedish Parliament grew into the Fridays For Future motion, which has been replicated in lots of different nations. 

Chris Kebbon has been a long-term member of the crowd and incessantly demonstrates with others within the Mynttorget, a public sq. within sight.

When Greta and the others have been arrested by means of the Israelis on Monday, he staged a spontaneous demonstration there with different supporters.

Chris stayed with Greta in Sicily till she set sail and took dozens of pictures of her, together with this one during which she is noticed at the prow of the Barcarole

The local weather campaigner-turned-Palestine freedom fighter, secure in an orange lifestyles jacket and a inexperienced frog-shaped solar hat, observing on the Israeli sandwich with a hungry smile

His Instagram posts give the air of an activist simply as dedicated as his good friend Greta, and whose rhetoric looked to be advocating greater than mere non violent protests.

He wrote of the Mayfair motion: ‘A couple of months in the past, we have been masses of people that amassed in London to protest, disturb and block fossil gasoline meetings.

‘Normal demonstrations don’t seem to be sufficient to get the folk in energy to behave anymore. If we do not bodily battle in opposition to those companies they’re going to exploit the entirety they are able to, and squeeze the ultimate drop of take advantage of the folk and the planet.

‘Many folks have been then arrested as a result of we have been preventing those oily assholes from coming into their greenwashing meetings.’