Operations are currently impacted.
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According to Munich Airport, one of the airport’s two runways was closed on Thursday because of a climate protest. According to an airport spokesman, activists have glued themselves to the runway north of the airport. Disruptions in air traffic are to be expected.
The police went on a large-scale operation. According to the airport, the activists had also tried to get onto the site on the south side of the airport, but were prevented from doing so by the police.
At the end of November, the group paralyzed the Berlin capital’s BER airport for almost two hours. At that time, two groups, each consisting of several people, gained access to the airport premises. According to police, some of them were glued to the ground. The group itself said that some activists rode bicycles across the site. Berlin Airport had stopped operations on both runways.
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.
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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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