Activists stick themselves to the Frankenschnellweg - mega traffic jams in rush hour traffic

Created: 02/22/2022, 10:24 am

By: Thomas Eldersch

Climate activists blocked the Frankenschnellweg in Nuremberg on Tuesday morning.

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Nothing worked on the Frankenschnellweg early Tuesday morning.

Activists blocked the streets and triggered a large-scale deployment of rescue workers and police.

Nuremberg - The fight against food waste is no longer just a topic among climate activists or environmentalists.

Above all, containering - i.e. taking food out, mostly from supermarket rubbish containers - has already occupied numerous courts and has now also reached politics.

Before he took office, Federal Minister of Economics Habeck advocated decriminalization.

The activists of the “last generation” take a different approach to pointing out food waste in Germany.

Her style is to draw attention to her cause with roadblocks.

This often led to large police and rescue service operations.

And even representatives of the Greens are now openly opposed to this form of protest.

Now they've done it again.

This time in Nuremberg.

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The Frankenschnellweg is the transport lifeline of the metropolitan region around Nuremberg.

Here, especially during rush hour, one car follows the other in several lanes.

The perfect place for the activists of the "last generation" to start their protest here.

And so in the early morning around 8 o'clock nothing worked anymore.

The food rescuers had glued themselves to the roadway at the height of the Jansen Bridge with glue.

This in turn called numerous emergency services into action and resulted in a long traffic jam.

Almost an hour later, the Central Franconia police were able to report success.

The "people were removed from the street," it said on Twitter.

The traffic could slowly start rolling again.

The activists are now threatened with a charge of coercion, the police also write on Twitter.

Activists stick themselves on the Frankenschnellweg - can't you put a bridge over it?

Actions like this not only get the pulse of the affected car and truck drivers up.

A veritable battle of beliefs then developed on the Internet.

Some accuse the most active of hypocrisy.

Another would like to dump a pack of fermented fish in front of them.

Others are more understanding.

"In rush hour, of course... Even if I agree with them on the matter, but sooner or later something bad will happen, I'm afraid." Still others even take the matter with humor.

So one writes: "Setting up a mobile bridge over it is not an option?"