The blockades of motorway exits in Berlin by demonstrators in January and February led to more than 270 criminal charges and around 120 charges of administrative offenses.
The allegations were mainly coercion in road traffic, resistance to police officers and dangerous intervention in road traffic. This emerges from a response from the Senate and the police to a request from the left as of February 18.
From January 24 to February 18, police found 45 blockades with seated and taped demonstrators from the Last Generation Uprising group. This was followed by a few blockades and attempts, including at several German airports and the port of Hamburg.
At the beginning of March, the actions because of the war in Ukraine were stopped for the time being. The Berlin police had also changed their tactics at the time and kept posting themselves at many motorway exits to intercept blockers in good time.
According to the Senate, the police held a total of 171 people in police custody by the February 18 deadline. Several people have been arrested multiple times. Under certain conditions, this is possible after an arrest up to the end of the following day at most.
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In 19 cases, a judge ordered longer detention. The police had set up their own so-called “EG Asphalt” investigation group at the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) to bundle the investigations.