Because they see their protests misrepresented in the media, demonstrators in Hamburg blocked a press distribution center for hours. After talks failed, the police broke up the meeting.
According to the police, around 60 demonstrators blocked a press distribution center in Hamburg for hours on Saturday night with several vehicles and a tractor-trailer. According to participants, they wanted to protest against media reporting, for example about the farmers’ demonstrations. The newspapers only spread lies, said one protester.
Since the activists blocked all three of the company’s entrances during the unannounced demonstration from around 11:30 p.m., a number of distribution vehicles were unable to enter or leave the company premises. From the center, several daily newspapers are delivered to points of sale in Hamburg and the surrounding area.
The police initially held cooperation talks with the demonstrators. After their failure, officials broke up the rally at around 2 a.m. Personal details were also recorded and license plates of the vehicles were recorded.
According to a report in the “Hamburger Morgenpost”, the action did not prevent the newspapers from ultimately being delivered. It is said that a printing company based in Ahrensburg and its logistics specialists adapted to the situation at short notice and reacted accordingly. There were only a few delayed deliveries of newspaper titles to retailers on Saturday morning.
Protest on BR premises: editor-in-chief faces discussion
On Friday, around 250 farmers and medium-sized businesses demonstrated in front of the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) premises in Unterföhring. Accordingly, the participants showed up at the station site with around 100 tractors and 40 trucks to express criticism of political decisions and the reporting on the protests.
As the BR writes, there was also a conversation lasting about an hour between BR editor-in-chief Christian Nitsche and spokespeople for the protest, who primarily criticized the fact that their events were not sufficiently covered in the media and that their concerns were therefore neglected. The BR was chosen for the campaign because, as a public broadcaster, it is obliged to be objective.
BR editor-in-chief Nitsche said after the exchange that he “personally has the feeling that something is brewing, more and more. We will accompany it and politicians must react to it.” An initiator of the protest rated the conversation as “very positive”. We were “finally allowed to talk on an equal level, what we mean and what concerns us.” According to BR information, the meeting was subsequently broken up and, according to the police, there were no disturbances.
Because of the planned gradual abolition of tax relief for agricultural diesel, farmers across the country have been taking to the streets for weeks. Despite the protests, the traffic light coalition did not back down from these plans.
Sources: DPA / /
Source: Stern
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