​The climate movement “The Last Generation” wants to paralyze all of Berlin from Monday. German police are preparing for a week of chaos on the roads and have refused to quietly negotiate with activists who are super glued to the asphalt. It is possible that the NGO is included in the category of “criminal organizations”.

Repeated protests

Hundreds of climate activists want to “paralyze” Berlin indefinitely starting on April 24 in an attempt to force the federal government to do more to protect the climate. Protests should stop only when the authorities respond to the demands of public organizations.

On Sunday, the city highway on Tempelhofer Damm was closed for almost three hours due to a protest concert. About 420 people took part in the bicycle demonstration there.

According to police, 500 people turned out for the “Last Generation” rally outside the Brandenburg Gate yesterday afternoon. Six activists stormed the Formula E electric car race track in Tempelhofer Feld. According to the police, the security service prevented them from sticking to the asphalt.

The Last Generation says that almost 1,000 people have signed up for the long-term protest. During the wave of blockades in October, there were only 80 of them. The NGO said that they would bring the whole city to a “dead end”. In addition to the sit-in and asphalt-sticking campaign, new forms of action are being tested: activists in compact groups simply walk slowly along major streets and stop traffic.

Termination of counseling

In the weeks leading up to the blockade of the Last Generation climate movement, police in Berlin stopped talking to activists about the danger to public order or security that their actions posed.

In the case of bullies, domestic violence, stalkers, politically motivated criminals, or in the area of ​​crime clans, factual danger counseling is a tried and tested method. But as far as climate activists are concerned, talk and warnings seem futile. A police spokeswoman told Tagesspiegel.de that “the people in question continued to take part in actions on several occasions.”

Facts, charges, convictions

At the end of last year, after a serious road accident, the Berlin prosecutor’s office investigated two activists from the “Last Generation” for involuntary manslaughter.

As of the end of March, 54 convictions had been handed down against climate change activists: for coercion, resisting law enforcement, trespassing or damaging property.

The police violated 3 thousand criminal proceedings, 1.7 thousand pre-trial investigations are ongoing in the prosecutor’s office. Of the 800 suspects, 300 are multiple, 231 have committed two to nine crimes, and 70 have committed more than ten crimes.

Protest for money

Members of an environmental non-governmental organization turn into climate stickers, glue their hands to the asphalt with superglue and disrupt traffic in cities. But they do it on account, as the Austrian activist shows.

In an interview with the RTL channel, the Austrian activist-chemist said that the protests are being paid for, and in the future she will even receive “additional income from self-employment, taxed for more than 20 hours of activity per week” from the Emergency Climate Fund. The procedure was to be carried out through a contact address in Germany.

According to Caroline Turner’s explanation to Profil.at, the fund would be sponsored by “wealthy people” who “have a troubled conscience.” We learned from the Climate Emergency Fund website that millions of dollars support this destructive (not destructive) activity. In the article, These groups want disruptive climate protests. They are financed by oil tycoons,” the New York Times analyzes the phenomenon.

In the category of “criminal organization”?

The Berlin Prosecutor’s Office sees no reason to classify “Last Generation” as a criminal organization. On the other hand, in Brandenburg, the Neuruppin prosecutor’s office suspects that the group’s goal is to “commit crimes of sufficient gravity.”

A spokesman for the Berlin prosecutor’s office said that the possible suspicion of a criminal organization is constantly checked and “is subject to constant reevaluation.” The reason for this reassessment is the attacks on the PCK refinery in Schwedt.

“In the interest of protecting the fundamental rights of others affected by the crimes of environmental activists, our primary goal is to prevent reported failures or, if not reported, to resolve them as soon as possible,” said Police Chief Barbara Slovik. .

The police will deliver the criminals “sequentially for the purpose of judicial arrest and preventively to avoid danger”. Numerous officials are on duty and will “monitor traffic interchanges, as well as entrances and exits to the city’s freeway to relieve congestion.”

Some places that have already been targeted are being watched and patrolled by undercover officers to be able to “immediately stop the action if possible,” Slovik says. Parliament and government buildings, embassies, diplomatic institutions, mass media and “other symbolic places” are especially protected.