The “Last Generation” protested across Germany on Monday, paralyzing traffic.
However, the adhesive actions apparently met with little understanding.
"Last generation"
with Germany-wide protests from Monday
: climate adhesives are demanding a
social council
.
Climate adhesives
encounter a lack of
understanding
from the Greens politician : "Because action and message don't go together."
Clashes
between climate activists and drivers: police check
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Update from February 6th, 2:10 p.m .:
While the protests of the “last generation” in Austria were largely peaceful, there were apparently fisticuffs between the climate stickers and drivers in Berlin and Leipzig today.
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As previously reported
(see update at 11.05am)
, the Last Generation shared a video on Twitter of a man dragging an activist off the street, pinning him to the ground and yelling, 'Enough!
You're staying here now... There are people who have something more important in mind than this madness!" As the police have now confirmed to
t-online
, the recordings were made during a climate-adhesive campaign on Messedamm in Berlin.
There were blockades at several street locations.
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In Reutlingen, plainclothes police have removed "last generation" activists from the streets.
In other cities, the motorists themselves have apparently become active.
© IMAGO/Markus Ulmer/ULMER Press Photo Agency
In Leipzig, too, activists from the “last generation” would have blocked traffic.
According to the Saxony police, four of them were stuck.
In the city center there was therefore a large backlog, but also fisticuffs.
Demonstrators were said to have had their banners taken away by motorists, and some were also pushed and pulled off the road.
Both the Berlin and Leipzig police are now checking possible reports from both sides.
Update from February 6th, 1:35 p.m .:
The protests of the “last generation” are currently blocking traffic in Munich, among other places.
The old town is particularly affected.
Apparently, an ambulance had to pass by during the adhesive action, but this was done without any major problems.
Green politicians don't understand climate stickers - "Last Generation" announces more protest cities
Update from February 6, 11:05 a.m .:
Activists from the climate protection movement Last Generation blocked roads in several German cities at the start of the week.
The disruptive actions cause traffic jams in some places during rush hour.
Meanwhile, Green Party leader Katharina Dröge expresses her incomprehension with regard to the adhesive actions.
"What's the message?
What do they want to achieve?” she asks in the
RTL/ntv
program “Frühstart”.
"Are they trying to tell people stop driving to work or stop taking your kids to school?
Action and message don’t go together.”
The “Last Generation” has not yet reacted to this accusation and instead announced via Twitter that further climate protests will take place today.
Accordingly, there should be adhesive campaigns in Düsseldorf, Freiburg, Hanover, Heilbronn, Jena, Kempten im Allgäu, Leipzig and Passau.
As previously reported, protests are also taking place in Berlin, Magdeburg and Reutlingen.
According to
24rhein.de
, there are also adhesive campaigns of the “last generation” in Cologne.
For months, the government didn't take even the simplest security measures like a #speed limit.
People interrupt everyday life in:
Düsseldorf
Freiburg
Hanover
Heilbronn
Jena
Kempten in Allgäu
Leipzig
Magdeburg
Passau
Reutlingen
Berlin
We demand a #social council.
pic.twitter.com/C8rbW0eozU
— Last Generation (@uprisingLastGen) February 6, 2023
The video posted by the Last Generation on Twitter to accompany their announcement shows a man pulling an activist off the street with his own hands and yelling at him, "Enough!
You stay here now, dammit!” The activist immediately gets up again to glue himself to the street.
The driver then says: "There are people who have something more important in mind than this madness!"
Climate protests in Magdeburg, Berlin and Reutlingen: "Last generation" paralyzes commuter traffic
Update from February 6th, 10:15 a.m .:
As announced, the protest group “Last Generation” is apparently expanding its protests to all of Germany from today.
According to media reports, in addition to Berlin, adhesive campaigns have also taken place in Magdeburg and Reutlingen.
As the MDR reports, climate activists have been stuck on the B1 in Magdeburg since Monday morning at the junction between “Großer Werder” and Markgrafenstrasse.
Traffic will be diverted into the city.
A press spokeswoman for the "Last Generation" assured the broadcaster that it would not be the last adhesive campaign in Magdeburg.
There will also be other nationwide campaigns today.
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The police broke up a protest action by the "Last Generation" in Magdeburg on Monday morning.
© Thomas Schulz/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa
"There must be no getting around our demands if we still want to have a chance of surviving," the press spokeswoman told MDR.
She emphasizes, however, that within the "last generation" one relies on peaceful protests.
Meanwhile, activists in Berlin blocked the Messedamm in the morning rush hour.
There are said to have been several altercations with drivers.
Likewise, there have already been adhesive campaigns in Reutlingen, as reported by the
Reutlinger Generalanzeiger
.
"Last generation" wants to paralyze Germany today: climate protests in various cities
First report from February 5th:
Munich - For almost a year now, the protest group "Last Generation" has been drawing attention to climate change, primarily with adhesive campaigns and blockades on streets and with disturbances in museums and ministries.
So far, actions have mainly been limited to Munich and Berlin, but that should now officially change from Monday (February 6).
"Last generation" with Germany-wide protests from Monday: climate adhesives demand social council
"We will try to take the protest to every town, to every village," announced a press spokeswoman for "Last Generation" Aimée van Baalen at the end of January.
"The resistance is greater than ever."
From February 6th, attention should not only be drawn primarily in Munich and Berlin, but throughout Germany to the climate crisis and "massively taken to the streets", the spokeswoman said.
She did not reveal exactly what is planned from Monday.
According to their own statements, the “Last Generation” wants to install a “social council” in which randomly drawn people sit.
Steps should be worked out here so that Germany is climate-neutral from 2030.
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Climate activists from the "Last Generation" initiative on Ebertstrasse in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
© Annette Riedl/dpa
For weeks, the "last generation" has been training especially for the planned climate campaigns.
While the protest group claims that its climate protests are gaining more and more support, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, for example, sees things differently.
“A lot of citizens shake their heads at such actions.
Me too.
They are counterproductive," he said in an interview with
Bild am Sonntag
.
"Last Generation": Activists stuck to the floor in front of Friedrich Merz
It was not until Thursday afternoon that the protest group drew attention again when two activists stuck themselves to the floor at the New Year's reception of the CDU Mainz during a speech by the CDU chairman Friedrich Merz in front of the lectern.
The activists of the "Last Generation" explained that the handling of Merz and the CDU with the climate catastrophe was "exemplary for the German political failure".
"While he downplays or keeps silent about the life-threatening consequences of global warming, he warns at every opportunity of possible restrictions through climate policy measures," the two women accused him of.
He comforts the population “with the distant hope of saving technologies”.
They are now being investigated for trespassing, property damage and the abuse of emergency calls.
Merz himself said to the two women during the disruption: "It's nice that you're still here - your colleagues are currently in Bali." He was referring to a report by
Bild
, according to which two activists from the last generation were not appeared for a court hearing in Stuttgart because they had traveled to Bali.
(nz/dpa/afp)
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