After the paint attack at Sylt Airport, the activists of the "Last Generation" have looked for a new target on the celebrity island: a golf course.
Sylt – An island in the sights of environmental activists: After a hotel lobby and a private jet have already been sprayed with paint, supporters of the "Last Generation" have looked for a new destination on the celebrity island of Sylt: the golf course of a luxury hotel. There, the activists had stormed the square on Wednesday, June 14, 2023.
In 2020/2021, the Sylt golf course Budersand in Hörnum was named the best golf course in Germany by "Golf Magazin". Climate activists had now dug holes there. © Konrad Weiß & aal.photo/imago
The emergency call from the island village of Hörnum was received by the police at 11:10 a.m. Several people had started digging holes on the golf course, planting flowers and a tree. The activists also stole the golf flag without further ado and replaced it with a sign with the inscription "Nature reserve".
Apparently, the climate fighters had come through a cut fence on the site.
"Last generation" chops up luxury golf course on Sylt: "People dismissed again"
Several patrol cars moved up to the facility. Five people, aged 22 to 61, were taken into custody. "Four defendants are already being investigated for the damage to property at Sylt Airport on June 6," the Flensburg police department said in a statement.
A jet sprayed with orange paint by climate protection activists from the Last Generation Initiative stands on a tarmac. © Julius Schreiner/TNN/dpa
The police estimate the property damage at a four-digit amount. In the case of the paint attack on a private jet, damage worth several hundred thousand euros is even assumed. Nevertheless, the climate activists are not to be remanded in custody: "The conditions for pre-trial detention are not met after examination by the responsible public prosecutor's office. After completion of the police measures, the people were released and escorted to the mainland," said senior public prosecutor Bernd Winterfeldt to the Bild newspaper.
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According to information from the tabloid newspaper, the golf course "budders" are a woman (22) from Lehre in Lower Saxony, a woman (31) from Nehms in Schleswig-Holstein, a man (43) from Berlin and a man (60) from Garching in Bavaria.
Several actions on Sylt: "Last Generation" targets the rich
After the "Last Generation" was initially known for sticking itself to roads, the group says it now wants to target "the rich": They want to "go to the symbols of modern wealth" and "draw attention to the reckless waste of the rich," according to a "summer plan 2023" of the group, the validity of which was confirmed to dpa at the request of dpa.
According to the group, the wealthy have a particularly large share in the climate crisis. The German government is allowing "super-rich people to destroy our livelihoods day after day." The climate catastrophe is being made "primarily by the rich".
Golf course "Budersand" is considered one of the best courses in Germany:
The "Budersand" golf course on Hörnumer Strand, which is considered one of the best courses in Germany, also falls into the group's scheme. "A golf course in the climate crisis is like a food fight in the middle of a famine," one member of the group explained. Golf courses require huge areas and vast amounts of resources, according to the criticism.
The water consumption of a Central European 18-hole course, such as the one on the celebrity island of Sylt, is said to be around 35,000 cubic meters per year – which corresponds to the water consumption of more than 750 Germans per year.