Paintings, streets and now the airport BER – the actions of the “last generation” are becoming more and more drastic. After the blockade of Berlin Airport on Thursday, the criticism of climate protection has become increasingly sharp.
After it climate activists the “last generation” succeeded in paralyzing the capital’s BER airport for a few hours on Thursday, criticism of this form of activism is growing. “Protest actions of this kind are completely illegitimate and can no longer be simply accepted”, said FDP Secretary General Bijan Djir-Sarai the news portal t-online. It has to “full severity of the rule of law” to grab.
Djir-Sarai’s party friend, the Berlin FDP leader Sebastian Czaja, spoke of it “climate criminals”. His brother, CDU General Secretary Mario Czaja, said on t-online: “The rule of law knows the necessary instruments to defend oneself against such crimes. They must now be applied consistently: preventive detention, residence bans, fines.” The deputy leader of the Union parties in the Bundestag, Andrea Lindholz (CSU), demanded “consistent penalties” for disrupting flight operations. Lindholz saw the disruption to air traffic at BER “another red line” exceeded. are airports “no stage for political action”explained Lindholz, because there “lives can be endangered very quickly” could.
Last generation: Faeser speaks of renewed escalation
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) spoke of one on Twitter “renewed escalation and absolutely unacceptable” and complained “these actions destroy important societal acceptance for the fight against climate change”.
AfD party and faction leader Tino Chrupalla asked the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, in the case of “last generation” to become active. Not opinions, but actions should be decisive for its evaluation. “Securing critical infrastructure must have top priority”said Chrupalla.
According to the federal police, two groups had gained access to the BER airport site on Thursday afternoon. Some people glued themselves to the ground. the “last generation” informed that some activists had ridden around the site on bicycles. The action was streamed live on Twitter. Berlin Airport temporarily stopped operations on both runways. According to the first information, five starts had to be canceled because of the action, according to the airport, 750 passengers were affected.
Shortly before entering the airport premises, the group said they informed the police about their plans via an emergency call. The activists want to protest against the climate damage of flights.
Police take activists from “last generation” Celebration
After the action, the police took several people into custody. The police headquarters in Brandenburg announced in the evening that the climate activists would be charged with dangerous interference in air traffic, trespassing and property damage. More information on the number of those arrested is expected on Friday.
The Berlin Greens state chairwoman Susanne Mertens emphasized on t-online that protests must rule out endangering other people. “However, BER apparently has to revise its security concepts.” Her party colleague Konstantin von Notz, parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag, criticized the action as “counterproductive, overbearing and potentially dangerous”. Left boss Martin Schirdewan defended that “last generation” however, whose protest lay “finger in the wound of political inaction in the face of the climate catastrophe”.
In the past few weeks, the activists have repeatedly blocked road traffic, stuck themselves to paintings in museums and this week in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie on a conductor’s desk. Their goal is to draw public attention to the consequences of climate change and to call on politicians to take action. You have already received a lot of criticism for these actions. In a survey, 86 percent of those questioned considered the protests to be counterproductive.
Source: Stern
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