A climate activist sits on a street in Stralsund. Nevertheless, a truck starts moving and drags the protesters with it. The driver has to hand in his driver’s license – at least for the time being.
After the traffic blockade in Stralsund, during which a climate activist was hit on Wednesday, the district court is to decide on the duration of the truck driver’s license suspension. “We’ll present this to a judge today,” said a spokesman for the Stralsund public prosecutor’s office on Thursday. However, there are still some uncertainties about the incident, in which no one was injured.
Six blockers had obstructed traffic on a main traffic artery in Stralsund on Wednesday. The 41-year-old truck driver partially pulled three participants off the road in his direction of travel and threatened to hit them, a police spokesman said. Then the man got behind the wheel and drove off briefly. A young demonstrator, who was sitting on the road to the right in front of the bumper, was pushed about a meter forward, it said. According to police, no one was seriously injured.
The truck stopped, the blocker got up, the truck driver drove on. In the evening he turned himself in to the police in Grimmen, who “temporarily took away his papers.” A judge must decide on such a measure, said the spokesman. It is also still unclear whether the truck driver could see that someone was sitting in front of his vehicle again. Police are investigating the truck driver on suspicion of attempted assault. The climate activists are being investigated for violating the assembly law and suspected coercion in road traffic.
Source: Stern
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