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Christian Bläul in December at a demonstration of the "Last Generation" in Leipzig
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The Dresden climate activist Christian Bläul has commented on the risks of traffic blockades of the "last generation": "At least in the back of my mind I'm always mentally prepared for someone dying in our traffic jams," says the 41-year-old in a TV documentary , which "Sachsen-Fernsehen" shows on Tuesday and which can already be seen in the media library.
An accident at the end of the traffic jam in particular could result in "people dying and that's really hard to bear, but it's something we have to take a bit of risk," says Bläul.
"Doesn't fit my understanding of the law at all"
The Saxon police chief Jörg Kubiessa reacted sharply to this statement: "I don't support that at all," he says in the documentation.
“Since life is at stake at the very ends of traffic jams, they are not allowed to do that.
So the answer is very clear: That doesn't fit my understanding of the law at all.«
According to its own statements, the broadcaster accompanied the activist Bläul for a year for the 40-minute documentary.
It ranges from a blockade operation in Sweden over 16 days in custody to the current protests in Dresden.
Bläul raises the question of whether it is better "not to protest and to accept that we are going to the fossil business-as-usual" or to try to transform society and bring the climate catastrophe to a halt.
Meanwhile, the protests by climate protectors continue.
On Monday morning, five activists stuck to Angerstrasse in Passau.
The group itself announced that it had “brought traffic to a standstill”.
The police said they removed the protesters and took them to the station.
On Monday, the district court of Heilbronn sentenced two climate activists to prison terms of two and three months respectively because of a road blockade.
The two men had stuck their hands on a street in Heilbronn in early February.
After the decision, which was made in an accelerated procedure, the Last Generation group spoke of a "dam bursting" and announced nationwide protests.
At the same time, the "Last Generation" announced that they no longer wanted to carry out protest actions in Tübingen.
The agreement is the result of a conversation between Tübingen's Mayor Boris Palmer and four activists.
However, Palmer wrote on Facebook after the decision: »Of course I think it's good if Tübingen is spared.
However, that has nothing to do with an agreement.« The last generation offered nothing, he didn't demand anything.
"If the last generation now declares that it will refrain from actions in Tübingen, that is a one-sided declaration."
After Hanover, Tübingen and Marburg are the next cities to join forces with the group.
The climate activists offer to stop their protests across the country or in individual communities if the respective government responds to their demands.
This was partly met with sharp criticism.
ala/dpa
