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Activists of the "Last Generation" block access to BER Airport
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Activists from the »Last Generation« climate protection group have blocked the Berlin Autobahn to the airport.
Several men and women were sitting on the roadway just before the departure for the airport on Friday morning, reporters reported and could be seen in photos from the "Last Generation" initiative.
There was a long traffic jam.
The climate protest initiative announced that its supporters initially drove more and more slowly with several cars next to each other on the freeway.
They stopped before leaving, parked the cars across the street, got out with safety vests and banners and stuck themselves to the street.
»Shut down airports peacefully«
At the beginning of the week, the group announced that it would "peacefully paralyze airports" after numerous blockades of motorway exits and crossroads.
Critics of the protests showed no understanding for the traffic blockade.
The fact that the "last generation" itself used cars that are considered harmful to the climate caused a lot of excitement and ridicule.
In the past, activists had thrown tomato soup at the famous work »Sunflowers« by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh at London's National Gallery.
After the death of a cyclist, the activists interrupted their controversial protests for a day, and since then supporters of the movement have stuck to a street in Berlin every day.
Police have launched hundreds of criminal cases of coercion and resistance since the beginning of the year.
The activists demand that the federal government should "take the simplest security measures".
In their opinion, this means introducing a 9-euro ticket and making a speed limit of 100 km/h compulsory on German autobahns.
Last week, the activists invited Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) and Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) to negotiate their demands.
The politicians didn't show up.
swe/lmd/dpa
