The climate protest in Berlin continues.
Since Friday, the "Last Generation" has been very active.
All information in the news ticker.
Climate strike
in
Berlin
: the police are "reaching their limits" and releasing protesters after hours.
Climate strike
continues: "Last Generation" calls for
protest marches
.
This
news ticker on the protests of the
"last generation"
climate activists
is updated regularly.
Update from April 27, 6:24 a.m
.: The group “Last Generation” calls for “public protest marches” in Berlin on Thursday (April 27) and Friday (April 28).
The starting point is the Marx Engels Forum at Alexanderplatz.
It's supposed to start at 3 p.m.
Update from April 26, 3:27 p.m.:
Protest march and rally are now over.
And the “Last Generation” wants to let it be for today.
During the closing speech, the group thanked the police for their support and declared the climate protest over for today.
Activists shouldn’t stick to the street anymore either.
"I'd love to come back tomorrow."
Climate protest march in Berlin: Police on alert - 540 police officers on duty
Update from April 26, 1:44 p.m .:
The human train has now reached Alexanderplatz, from there it goes to the Marx-Engels-Forum, where the “last generation” will hold a final rally.
So far, the action has been peaceful and within the framework agreed with the police, a spokesman told
IPPEN.MEDIA
.
So far there have been no road blockades or other protests in Berlin.
But: "We always expect blockades," adds the spokesman.
On Tuesday, the "Last Generation" also remained quiet until late afternoon and then disrupted the rush-hour traffic.
The Berlin police are on alert and have been on duty since morning with 540 police officers.
Update from April 26, 12:37 p.m .:
The protest march does not go through Kreuzberg spontaneously.
As the
Tagesspiegel
writes, the police are leading the "Last Generation" along a previously agreed route.
It should be about five kilometers long.
Update from April 26, 11:56 a.m .:
Now the “last generation” is on the way.
The group accompanies the march out of the church itself in a video and marches across Bethaniendamm in the direction of the Spree.
Numerous activists pass a waiting police group.
It is not known exactly where the protest march will lead.
Apparently the “last generation” doesn’t know that either.
The protest march has left the church and is moving towards the first intersection.
Who determines the further route?
pic.twitter.com/F0QXL0227d
— Last Generation (@uprisingLastGen) April 26, 2023
Update from April 26, 11:30 a.m.:
About 200 protesters gathered in St. Thomas Church, reports the
Tagesspiegel
from Berlin.
About 30 police officers are said to be waiting in front of the church.
Inside there was a protest training session in the morning and then a “Last Generation” brunch.
The protest march through Kreuzberg should start shortly.
Preventive detention for climate activists: Berlin Green leader Jarasch finds it "questionable"
Update from April 26, 11:18 a.m .:
Probably no preventive detention for climate activists in Berlin.
Green leader Bettina Jarasch rejects the proposal by police union boss Rainer Wendt to apply the "Bavarian model" throughout Germany.
Under the Bavarian rule, protesters can be detained for up to 30 days before committing anything.
“Preventive detention means putting people in prison for crimes they have not yet committed.
That's questionable and it has to be strictly limited," said Jarasch on
rbb
's Inforadio .
Climate strike today in Berlin: "Last generation" starts protest march in Kreuzberg
Update from April 26, 11:12 a.m .:
The situation in Berlin has been relatively calm on Wednesday.
The "Last Generation" has been at the public brunch in the St. Thomas Church on Mariannenplatz in Kreuzberg since 9 a.m.
The protest march is scheduled to start at 11:30 a.m.
The activists move through the city without sticking or sitting.
Update from April 26, 7:02 a.m
.: The group "The Last Generation" apparently cannot be stopped by 700 police forces and "arrests".
A protest march is planned for Wednesday, but "without sitting down or sticking," as can be read on Twitter.
At 11.30 a.m. it starts at the St. Thomas Church in Berlin.
In any case, drivers were not deterred by a blockade on Tuesday afternoon at Ernst-Reuter-Platz in Berlin.
They simply ignored the protesters settled on the tarmac at the roundabout and drove past across the lawn honking their horns, as seen in a video posted to Twitter.
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Climate protest marches in Berlin: After the march on Friday and the street blockades on Monday, the "last generation" wants to take to the streets again on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
© Paul Zinken
"Last generation" in Berlin: head of the police union calls for "Bavarian model"
Update from April 26, 6:12 a.m .
: In Berlin, activists of the "last generation" can be taken into custody by the police for up to 48 hours in road blockades.
In Bavaria, preventive detention is possible for a maximum of 30 days.
The chairman of the German police union, Rainer Wendt, has called for tougher nationwide action against the climate activists - based on the Bavarian model.
"It is no coincidence that the activists chose Berlin and not Munich for their major protest," Wendt told the
editorial network Germany (RND)
.
"We will only get the situation under control when the penalties become more severe."
Climate strike in Berlin: the police are probably "reaching their limits" and releasing protesters after hours
Update from April 25, 9:35 p.m.:
On Tuesday afternoon, climate activists blocked traffic in Berlin again.
According to the press release of the "Last Generation", this should have affected traffic out of town and was therefore noticeable in the city center.
In the course of the afternoon, the Berlin police reported various blockades, some of which caused several people to stick to the road.
The forces have therefore "checked 25 locations for protest actions and cleared the blockades that were found," tweeted the Berlin police in the evening.
She named the districts of Charlottenburg, Schöneberg, Treptow and Friedrichshain as places of action.
According to the “Last Generation”, the police and judiciary are “already reaching their limits” in view of the climate protests.
About 50 protesters are said to have waited "for hours in the underground car park of the police station on Tempelhofer Damm" to be taken to cells.
However, they were eventually released because the authorities were unable to process the high number of cases.
Carla Hinrichs, spokeswoman for the "Last Generation", sees this as a positive sign: "The peaceful resistance against the deadly course of our government cannot be ended by the police or the judiciary." The "Last Generation" advertised their protest march on tomorrow via Twitter Wednesday - but with the addition: "Without sitting down or sticking".
🚧 We can't go any further here 🚧
We reach the last descent before climate collapse.
let's take her!
👉 Join our protest march tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. in Berlin.
Without sitting down or sticking.
Meeting point St. Thomas Church.
pic.twitter.com/3TsORlIwUR
— Last Generation (@uprisingLastGen) April 25, 2023
Climate strike in Berlin continues: “We will be successful.
We are many"
First report from April 25, 5:16 p.m.:
Berlin – Under the motto “Berlin April 2023”, the “last generation” wants to bring the capital to a standstill.
The project has been running since Friday (April 19).
After protest marches over the weekend, things really got going on Monday (April 24), Tuesday (April 25) was a little quieter.
The balance of Monday: more than 30 street blockades, 87 activists in custody.
On Wednesday (April 26) at 11:30 a.m., the group’s next major campaign, which calls for more climate protection in the face of climate change, will start.
The "Last Generation" calls for a protest march and will start at St. Thomas Church in Berlin.
The activists want to march every day in the days that follow.
The Last Generation plan at a glance.
Numerous actions in Berlin: "Last generation" wants to hold out the climate protest all week
The group is certain that this mammoth program will last.
"Unlike in the past, we now have structures to quickly get hundreds of people to protest," she writes on her website, "with mobi and training and proactive self-organization - this is how we hold out, for a long time."
"And we will be successful.
We are many.
We stick together,” adds the “Last Generation”.
On Monday afternoon, a spokeswoman announced that the action had been the largest in the history of the movement.
There were about three times as many protests as during the autumn offensive.
"Last Generation" reports a lot of encouragement during the climate strike: "Children wave when walking past"
The group also reported a lot of encouragement on the streets.
Passers-by are said to have thanked them for the “courageous protest”.
"Children wave as they pass, cyclists applaud and passers-by give us chocolate," says spokeswoman Aimée van Baalen.
Nevertheless, criticism of the protest form was also voiced.
Fridays for Future recently criticized the "Last Generation".
Apparently something is moving, some local organizations of Fridays for Future have now expressed their solidarity with the protests in Berlin in an open letter.
List of rubrics: © Sven Kaeuler/dpa