Operations are currently impacted.
(Photo: Getty Images; Per-Anders Pettersson)
According to Munich Airport, one of the airport’s two runways was closed on Thursday because of a climate protest. According to the federal police, the operation against climate activists at the capital’s airport BER has already ended and demonstrators who have been glued to it have been removed from the runway. Flight operations were not affected, said a spokeswoman for the Berlin Federal Police Headquarters on Thursday morning. “The mission is over.”
Two climate activists had previously gained access to the security area of the airport and got onto the tarmac. They would have stuck there. Six other climate activists did not get to the airport site.
“We reacted quickly,” said the spokeswoman for the federal police. Since the last incident at BER Airport, the forces have been increased. On November 24, the climate activists paralyzed flight operations at Berlin Airport for almost two hours.
Several people gained access to the site through a fence. Some of them glued themselves to the ground. The airport halted operations on both runways.
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An action by climate activists at Munich Airport was also quickly ended on Thursday morning, as an airport spokesman said.
The “Last Generation”
The group “Last Generation” was responsible for the action on Thursday. “We are always ready for constructive talks, like yesterday with the Bavarian Minister of the Interior (Joachim Herrmann). But what we need in the face of the looming climate hell are actions and not just empty words,” said spokeswoman Aimée van Baalen.
The group, which recently also frequently blocked roads in Munich and Berlin, demands better climate protection from the federal government and demands, among other things, a speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour on motorways and a 9-euro train ticket for the whole of Germany.
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