"End the frenzy" - climate protectors block highways and intersections again

Blockade with announcement: climate protection demonstrators continued their actions in Berlin and caused several long traffic jams on the Autobahn and other roads on Monday morning. According to the police, there were at least five sit-ins, and some activists stuck to gantries.

As in the previous weeks, the blockades were organized by the environmental initiative "Last Generation", which calls for more measures to protect the climate. The police were on duty and removed people from the streets, which sometimes took some time because of the taped hands.

The self-proclaimed climate activists had previously announced a series of protests. Last Sunday, for example, members of the group sprayed mashed potatoes on a valuable painting by the French painter Claude Monet in the Barberini Museum in Potsdam.

The picture was glazed and was not damaged. Two perpetrators also glued themselves next to it. A similar action is said to have been prevented a few days ago. A week ago, environmental activists in London threw tomato soup at a painting by Vincent van Gogh. In Berlin, demonstrators had stuck themselves to painting frames.

On Monday morning, the activists blocked a motorway exit in Charlottenburg, so that the cars in the north to Tegel were backed up and, according to the traffic information center, had to wait an hour.

There were also blockades at the Detmolder Strasse motorway exit, at Alexanderplatz and Rosenthaler Platz in Mitte and at Frankfurter Allee at the Ringcenter, where cars were backed up as far as Friedrichsfelde. The group tweeted: "The federal government must end the frenzy on German autobahns."

So far there have been a few convictions of demonstrators to minor fines for coercion. At the Berlin public prosecutor's office alone, there were 666 investigations by mid-October. 224 penal orders were applied for at the Tiergarten district court. 138 procedures were open.