By Ingo Gentner, Ismael Hormess, Axel Lier, Luisa Volkhausen and Christina Drechsler
The climate extremist wears a high-visibility vest and is about to retire. While police officers free his glued hand from the railing of a gantry sign in Berlin, a woman (44) fights for her life. And loses.
A rescue vehicle from the fire brigade could not get through because of the blocked road to save the woman. She had been run over by a concrete mixer while riding her bicycle. Blame for the delay: the climate radicals. On Thursday, three days after the accident, the woman was pronounced brain dead. Machines keep the organs alive.
The rescue vehicle of the fire brigade was supposed to lift the concrete mixer under which the cyclist was lying. It would normally have taken him 10 to 12 minutes to get from the fire station to the scene of the accident. Because of the climate sticker, he drove 19 minutes. When it became clear that the rescue vehicle would not come fast enough, the rescuers on site decided to move the 40-ton truck to drive over the woman’s legs again to free her.
The climate criminals are to blame for the unconventional, delayed rescue.
Berlin’s Mayor Franziska Giffey (44, SPD) shows how often the climate criminals endanger human lives: “Since February, rescue vehicles have been obstructed in 18 cases. The police had more than 130,000 operating hours due to the blockades. There are 729 proceedings in progress, 241 penal orders have been applied for.”
Berlin’s Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey (l, SPD) and Bettina Jarasch (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), Berlin Senator for the Environment, Mobility, Consumer and Climate Protection on November 1st, 2022 Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Soren Stache
NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU): “What is often played down as civil disobedience may have ultimately prevented the saving of a human life.”
Thorsten Frei (49), parliamentary director of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group: “Coercion, dangerous intervention in road traffic, obstruction of rescue workers are criminal offenses! That is why the full force of the law is needed. And that includes imprisonment for the perpetrators.”
The two climate extremists (63 and 59) from the day of the accident are only being investigated for failure to provide assistance. You only face a small fine.