Pading actions of the Letzte Generation movement are not unanimous in the Greens, members of the Coalition.
by Thomas Wieder (Berlin, Correspondent)
For the second time in a week, an important police operation made the major news of the news in Germany. But, unlike that of December 7, which made it possible to dismantle an extreme right cell with putschist inclinations, that which struck the ecological movement Letzte Generation (“Latest generation”), Tuesday, December 13, is not unanimous . Especially among the Greens, members of the coalition of Olaf Scholz, who, if they hardly taste the radicality of this organization adapted to the blows to denounce the inaction of the authorities in the face of the “climate disaster”, are far away to all agree to qualify it as “criminal”.
This is indeed the adjective used by the neuruppin prosecution (Brandenburg), at the origin of the searches conducted by eleven activists of Letzte Generation “suspected of training or supporting a criminal organization”. In question: the actions carried out since April against the refinery of Schwedt-sur-Oder. Located near the Polish border, this vast industrial site possessed by the Russian group Rosneft is in the sights of the organization, whose members have reached, on several occasions, to cut the pipeline tap which feeds it in oil.
If the Germans know Letzte Generation, it is however more for other, more recent operations, which have been the subject of a much higher media interest: jet of potatoes on the glass protecting a Claude Monet canvas in a potsdam museum, hands glued to the frame of a table of Raphaël in a dresden museum, street and road blockages, intrusion into the airports of Berlin and Munich leading to the interruption of the traffic For a few hours … Since Tuesday’s searches, new actions have taken place: Thursday, activists went to the Bundestag, where they blocked two parking entries and arrested several deputies; Friday, a small group climbed the famous statues of Goethe and Schiller, in Weimar, hanging on the neck of the first a scarf marked with a quote from the second: “Who dares nothing should hope for nothing.”
“incendiaries”
Several political leaders have had very harsh words against these young activists. At the beginning of November, Alexander Dobrindt, the leader of the Bavarian conservatives in the Bundestag (CSU), spoke of a “climate raf”, drawing a parallel with the Red Army Fraction (RAF), the far -left terrorist group accused of having Killed about fifty people, most of them in the 1970s. Thursday, Friedrich Merz, the president of the Christian Democrat Union (CDU), has spoken out for a “prohibition” of Letzte Generation, accusing its members of “putting In danger of human lives “.
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