By Michael Behrendt and Isabel Pancake
Climate protesters from the Last Generation group tried to block traffic in several places in Berlin on Friday.
Among other things, they protested at the roundabout around the Victory Column. The Großer Stern is an important intersection in the capital, especially during rush-hour traffic, and many commuters also pass there on their way from the Autobahn to the city center. Especially on weekends, it is regularly the scene of demonstrations.
The protests were quickly broken up by the rapid intervention of the police Photo: Olaf Wagner
As a result of the sticking action, there were considerable traffic problems and a long backlog formed. Numerous motorists tried to avoid the blockade by driving on sidewalks. Two activists were arrested and six people were expelled from the square by the police.
Around nine o’clock the traffic rolled around the Victory Column again. A final police report on the course of events at Großer Stern is still pending.
The officials had their hands full around the Victory Column to end the blockades of climate chaos Photo: Olaf Wagner
The climate radicals also stuck to these places:
► Dorotheenstrasse/corner of Ebertstrasse: five people with banners, one of them glued on.
► Heidestrasse just before the Tiergarten tunnel at the main train station: seven people on the road, four of them stuck.
► Large star in the direction of the CDU party headquarters: eight people, four of them glued, sometimes together.
► In front of the Bundestag on Scheidemannstraße, two people blocked with a banner.
Shortly before 11 a.m., the Berlin police announced that all blockages had now been cleared.
On Thursday, the climate stickers paralyzed the airports in Hamburg and Düsseldorf for several hours by overcoming the fences, running onto the runways and sticking themselves there near the runways.
A climate sticker with a mask stuck to the big star Photo: Olaf Wagner
Climate adhesives take a summer break
Finally: The climate stickers of the “last generation” are on summer vacation for three weeks! During this time they do not plan any protests.
According to an internal document, the climate blockers want to use the time from July 15 to August 5 to “grow together and rest” – they are allowed to go on vacation.
“Some things will feel difficult to let go, but it has to be done,” it says. One of the strange propaganda commands for the protest vacationers: “I accept that things are left behind in time, that we seem to lose potential. This is good because it serves a higher purpose: the tipping point after.”
In Berlin, the nerve gluers are planning a larger wave of protests again from September 13th. The climate radicals are currently looking for private accommodation in the capital.
“Because we have become so many, we can no longer afford to organize accommodation through Airbnb,” said one climate extremist in an internal Zoom call.
They also announce what has to happen for the climate adhesives to interrupt their break: If “Olaf Scholz is up because of heat stroke [der] intensive care unit is located or the Ahr valley repeats itself”.