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Around 65 people took part in the march, according to city police commander Karl Pogutter. It went peacefully, but was broken up after 25 minutes because the meeting had not been announced. According to the police, the climate protectors had gathered in front of the new town hall in Linz-Urfahr and then crossed the Nibelungen Bridge in the direction of the city center. Since the meeting was not registered, they were then told that they had to end the action, which they did. According to Pogutter, the demo caused a traffic jam in the direction of Puchenau, and the police set up a detour.
One condemns the prosecution and criminalization of climate activists in Germany in the strongest possible terms, “because it again raises the question of why those who warn about the climate crisis are being persecuted by the executive and not those who are causing it,” so “Fridays For Future Upper Austria” in a press release. “Today we are showing that the ‘last generation’ in Germany is not alone,” stressed Jelena Saf from the “Last Generation Upper Austria”. Anyone who takes the climate crisis seriously cannot accept such repression. “The actions of the German judiciary show the helplessness of the German government in the fight against the climate crisis: instead of doing something useful, they punish the bearers of the bad news”.
Source: Nachrichten
