Last generation activists block rush hour traffic

Created: 01/09/2023Updated: 01/09/2023 10:51 am

Participants in a blockade campaign by the last generation climate protection movement are sitting on a main road in Mainz.

© Peter Zschunke/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa

For the second time, people are stuck on a street near the main train station.

Banners read: "Lützerath is alive" and "Last generation before the tipping points".

Mainz – One month after their first action in Mainz, the last generation climate protection movement blocked another main road.

Five women and two men ran into the street at the main train station on Monday morning.

Six activists taped themselves to the asphalt with their hands.

Commuter traffic was diverted widely.

On banners, the participants in the campaign referred to the protection of life enshrined in the Basic Law and pointed out the threatening tipping points of global warming.

An activist held a sign that read "Lützerath is alive" - ​​the village in North Rhine-Westphalia occupied by climate activists is to be demolished according to the will of the energy company RWE in order to mine the coal underneath.

Police released the taped hands and took the activists' personal details.

A police spokesman said an investigation was being launched on suspicion of coercion and violation of the right to assembly.

Already on December 9th activists of the last generation had blocked the street at the main station in Mainz.

"We are in a climate emergency and nothing is being done," said 39-year-old Lena at the time.

"150 species die every day and at some point we will be one of them." She understands if drivers are annoyed by the action.

But she sees no other option than to disrupt society in its processes.

dpa