Climate protests escalate: woman sticks to the hospital with tires!

Climate protests escalate: woman sticks to the hospital with tires!

In a spectacular protest against the "World Lng Summit" in the renowned Hotel Adlon in Berlin, tumultuous scenes occurred today. Activists of the climate movement tried to block access to the conference for liquefied gas. The police reacted immediately and removed the demonstrators. The case of an activist woman was particularly dramatic who stuck to the rim of a van so firmly that she had to be taken to the hospital together by bike. A total of more than 120 participants of the protests were temporarily arrested for violent behavior, as the police had confirmed, while two other activists had to be treated by a doctor due to hypothermia, the BZ Berlin .

The protests that started on Monday also contained color attacks in which green color was poured against the hotel facade. This was a symbolic action against the so -called "greenwashing" of the liquid gas industry, as the group "Last generation" explained. The police, which had sealed off the area around the hotel, had to intervene several times because some activists tried to violently overcome the barriers. In particular, a group of demonstrators from the “End of Rounds” group caused clashes and even attacked police officers, which led to further arrests. These members had fallen from a nearby park to the hotel to express their displeasure with the conference, as the

The multi-day conference, in which leading representatives of the gas industry and politicians take part, is criticized by over 40 environmental organizations that indicate that fossil gas has the same environmental properties such as oil and coal. These objections increase the pressure on the governments of making decisions for environmentally friendly technologies that are really sustainable instead of relying on supposed "bridge technologies". Further protests and blockages are still to be expected, since the climate activists are determined to fight fossil fuels and to draw attention to the urgency of the climate crisis.