From the BZ editorial team
Is it now even the Greens too much? The tone is getting rougher between the eco-party and the radical climate chaos of the “last generation”.
Because: The climate extremists have apparently overstretched the curve with their latest protest action.
With an “oil” mixture, the climate chaos polluted the Basic Law monument on the Reichstag building. The justification for the action: those who consume oil disregard fundamental rights. Even among the Greens, the action caused bewilderment.
Former Green Party Secretary Marieluise Beck (70) wrote on Twitter: “So much self-righteousness and moral loftiness is dangerous. Very dangerous. The feeling that one should do everything in the spirit of a higher and just cause led to horrific violence in the 1970s.”
Meaning: The escalation of the left-wing protest movement, from which, among other things, the “Red Army Faction” (RAF) emerged.
Even the leader of the Greens, Ricarda Lang (29), felt compelled to criticize the action of the climate extremists, but left it at a harmless sentence: “This action is just wrong.”
Quite different interior expert Konstantin von Notz (52, Greens), who ate heartily on Twitter: “What a shitty action!”
“You don’t give a fuck about fundamental rights”
There was also strong criticism of the climate chaos and their monument pollution from the SPD. Member of the Bundestag Michael Roth (52, SPD), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, compared the actions of the protesters to the Islamist Taliban destroying art.
Roth wrote on Twitter: “What a cheap, undignified action. You shit on basic rights, destroy art like the Taliban and still feel like heroes! Do you seriously believe that you are advancing climate protection?!”
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (52, SPD) also went to the barricades against the action. You have “zero understanding for such actions”. Faeser continued on BILD am SONNTAG: “There is no justification for smearing fundamental rights of all things – and that too in the Bundestag, the heart of our democracy. This shows that these people only have chaos in mind. This completely unworthy action must now be consistently prosecuted.”
The first parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group, Katja Mast (52, SPD), called the action “unworthy”. Celebrating them “tramps on our values.”
For the climate chaos, their action has legal consequences. Criminal investigations have been initiated against the six suspects for damaging property. In addition, there are administrative offense proceedings for violating the Freedom of Assembly Act and the Act on Peaced Districts of the Federal Constitutional Bodies.