Six pillars of the monument at the heart of the German capital were scattered with orange warning makeup, the group said in a statement.
Activists from climate group” Last Generation” spray- painted Berlin’s notorious Brandenburg Gate on Sunday, calling for the abandonment of fossil energies and further action on climate change.
Six pillars of the monument at the heart of the German capital were scattered with orange warning makeup, the group said in a statement.
The makeup spread to the Pariser Platz, the forecourt at the bottom of the monument, with bright vestiges extending along the thruway.
Fourteen people were arrested at the point, police told AFP, without any suggestion of acts of violence.
The demonstrators wanted to shoot the communication that it’s” time for political change” in order to” move down from fossil energies”, according to the statement. ” We must get out of petrol, gas and coal no latterly than 2030.
It’s high time that( German Chancellor) Olaf Scholz speaks easily,” Last Generation prophet Marion Fabian said in the statement.
Thousands of climate protestors, led by youthful people, demonstrated Friday in Berlin and across Germany calling on Scholz’s government to take further action to achieve the country’s climate pretensions.
Last week, the activist group began a series of ‘ Action Weeks ’, which would see colorful large- scale shutdowns across the megacity.
Their thing is for Germany to fully abandon fossil energies from 2030. The German government is aiming for a climate-neutral frugality by 2045, but has missed its climate protection targets for the last two times.
As for the group’s uninterrupted presence in the Hauptstadt, Last Generation prophet Carla Hinrichs blazoned in a press conference on Friday that the activists “ won’t leave Berlin until the change comes. ”
Berlin mayor Kai Wegner has sharply criticized the action, announcing on Sunday: “With these actions, this group is not only damaging the historic Brandenburg Gate, but also our free discourse about the important issues of our time and future.” He further condemned Last Generation, saying that “Those who are serious about climate protection must distance themselves from these actions and this group”.
