A police team from Murnau is deployed if climate activists from the “Last Generation” group stick to the roadways in the region.
Specially trained officials from the central emergency services (ZED) then form a “glue-on team” that collects climate glue from the street.
Murnau
- It can theoretically happen any day, and not just in metropolises like Munich and Berlin, but also in Murnau, Bad Tölz or Weilheim: The group "Last Generation" has announced that its protest actions from February 6th will cover the entire republic expand and try to "take it to every town, to every village".
Officers from the Murnau squad form a "glue-on team"
Bavaria's police have armed themselves for this – with "glue-on teams";
the English term stands for sticking, gluing.
One of these specially trained, new groups is located in Murnau: They are officials from the central emergency services (ZED), a kind of police fire brigade with various support units that are responsible for the districts of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen and Weilheim -Schongau.
So if demonstrators stick themselves to the street in this area, a Murnau "glue-on team" will be deployed.
The first police officers of the ZED task force began training in autumn 2022.
For them it is now a matter of ensuring that everything flows again in an emergency.
The aim of the activists is to obstruct road traffic, says Michael Bayerlein, head of the ZED, which is practically always available.
counts for his unit,
Murnau police chief does not rule out adhesive actions on site
The ZED team is deployed if the classic climate stickers should strike in the region: demonstrators who use superglue or special glue to fix themselves on busy streets in a way that attracts the public.
Joachim Loy, head of the Murnau Police Inspectorate, "does not rule out" being confronted with such actions in his area of responsibility.
In an emergency, his officers call in the Murnau “Glue-on-Team”, which then moves out with a specially filled emergency box.
The aim is to ensure an injury-free solution.
As far as the content is concerned, Bayerlein does not go into detail so as not to play activists in the hands.
These are “a wide variety of materials” that can be used to remove adhesions, some of which are natural substances.
One or the other means that officials apparently pull out of their bag of tricks,
made the rounds in the media.
Conventional cooking oil and soapy water should be underneath.
That doesn't sound like harsh methods: "We proceed as gently as possible" - Bayerlein attaches great importance to this statement.
And: "There are precise specifications as to what is used when."
Climate glue: Trained officials start with the gentlest solution method
The officials, says Bayerlein, always start with the gentlest approach and try their luck “carefully with a spatula first”.
If this is not crowned with success, you work your way through the solvents that are available step by step.
In some cases, the ZED boss knows, the fixed activists also told what kind of glue was used - and sometimes this is even still on site.
"You can get most of them off the street with simple means," says Bayerlein.
"It's not rocket science." After the corresponding announcements by the "Last Generation", he can imagine that more activists will take part in adhesive protests, take them to rural areas and give the Murnau "Glue-on-Team" missions : "Although we would not be angry,
Murnau Police Inspectorate runs through various scenarios
Police Chief Loy also takes the protest announcement seriously, the inspection is prepared.
"We ran through various scenarios: What could happen to us - and how do we react to it?" Loy has undergone training on the climate adhesive phenomenon and passed the content on to his employees.
It's about, he says, "reacting in such situations in a proportionate and legally secure manner."
