Curious protest: Climate activists stick to car tires – police react pragmatically

In Berlin, activists of the "Last Generation" blocked streets again on Monday. This time, a rental car had to believe in it.

Berlin – In Berlin, traffic blockades by activists of the "Last Generation" occurred again on Monday. The demonstrators glued themselves to 17 different locations. There were long traffic jams with up to two hours of waiting. Unlike in previous actions, this time the activists also glued themselves to car tires. The police quickly found a solution.

Protest of the "Last Generation": Police unscrew car tires including climate glue

"At the Hohenzollerndamm driveway, people have glued themselves to car tires," the Berlin police said on Twitter on Monday morning. And how do you clarify the problem? "Solution: tire change," the police tweeted promptly. And indeed, pictures at Reuters showed how one of the activists was placed next to the highway – with his car tire removed.

The tires belonged to two rental cars that the activists had borrowed for the protest. They also set up the cars to block the road. The two young adults glued their hands to the rims of the tires.

In addition, the "Last Generation", whose protest is supposed to be more radical from the point of view of a professor, used a sand-glue mixture on Monday, according to their own statements, so that it takes a particularly long time to remove the stuck hands from the asphalt. The police reported that they had used some cut-off grinders, causing road damage, which first had to be repaired. The last road blockade was resolved around 13 p.m.

Protest of the "Last Generation": Also convicted press spokeswoman present

As a photographer of the dpa reported, Carla Hinrichs, the press spokeswoman of the "Last Generation", was also part of the protest action on Monday. Last week, she was sentenced to two months in prison on probation by the district court of Frankfurt am Main for an earlier action. Hinrichs himself wrote on Twitter: "No verdict will stop me from protesting for justice."

On the A100 at Hohenzollerndamm, activists blocked the road on Monday. Two young adults glued themselves to car tires a little further back. © Julius-Christian Schreiner/dpa

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The spokeswoman for the Frankfurt district court, Sylvia Hauptmann, explained the legal situation to dpa: Last week's ruling was not yet final, as appeal deadlines were still running. However, if the Frankfurt verdict becomes final and Hinrichs is convicted again for the Berlin action, a violation of probation could be established. Then it could be that Hinrichs will have to start her prison sentence. Activists of the "Last Generation" from Austria are also threatened with imprisonment. They blocked an ambulance – because they had forgotten a call, according to the activists, whose ban was already being discussed in the Bundestag. (chd/dpa).