“Memorial for failure in the climate catastrophe”: Once again a color attack on the Brandenburg Gate. The Last Generation group defaced the building. Two activists were arrested.
Climate activists have once again daubed the Brandenburg Gate with orange paint. Members of the Last Generation group painted the west side of the gate with brushes – while at the same time the scaffolding still stands on the east side, with which the remaining paint from September is being removed very laboriously and expensively.
This time the climate activists did not spray the paint over large areas from fire extinguishers, but rather only painted it on two pillars at about head height. Police officers were on site very quickly. Two perpetrators were “arrested by our forces on site while daubing paint on the Brandenburg Gate,” the police said. They were led away in handcuffs.
Berlin’s Governing Mayor Kai Wegner (CDU) announced on the Internet: “Anyone who despises Berliners so much will feel the consequences. Notice and bill for the cleaning will come.”
According to a report in the “Berliner Zeitung”, cleaning experts quickly took action. One of them used a high-pressure cleaner to almost completely remove the paint in just a few minutes.
“The Brandenburg Gate remains orange”
The Last Generation posted a video online of a young man with a brush and paint and wrote: “The Brandenburg Gate remains orange. We are back at the Brandenburg Gate with paint. As long as Germany burns oil, gas and coal, we will come back.” The “national monument” is now also a “monument for failure in the climate catastrophe”.
On September 17th, the Last Generation group sprayed paint on six pillars of the gate. The police subsequently arrested 14 climate activists. An initial cleaning with hot water from high-pressure jets did not work. At the beginning of November, scaffolding was erected for further cleaning work.
In total, the work should cost at least 115,000 euros. Finance Senator Stefan Evers (CDU) emphasized that attempts would be made to collect the money from the climate protection group.
Source: Stern
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