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Stadtallendorf / Giessen – The situation continues to worsen with the clearing and logging of the Dannenröder forest on the A49. Pyrotechnics, stone throwing, feces: 42 arrests and 44 procedures on the fifth day of the mission in the Dannenröder forest!
An officer received a blow to the shin and a police officer received a mug full of excrement on the face. Opponents of the A49 expansion threw the emergency services with screw-on lenses.
According to the police, the work in the logistics area in the forest was monitored on Saturday. There, officials initially removed barricades, but also bicycles, plates, pallets and tools. In the middle of the forest, activists launched fireworks on Saturday morning, threatening to kill them.
Then several stones were thrown, one officer was injured. A knife and firecrackers were taken from a stone thrower.
Tensioned steel cable
In the northern part of the forest, officers discovered a steel cable that was stretched around several trees at head height. There, the opponents of the expansion threw glasses filled with excrement. A police officer was shot in the face and helmet.
A truck heading to the logistics warehouse later accidentally made its way to the expansion opponents’ camp at Dannenrod. The activists blocked the vehicle, around 15 threw threaded cups at the emergency services, filled them with paint, smeared some officers and an emergency vehicle. File of the criminal actions of the activists: 42 people arrested and nine investigative proceedings and 35 initiated for administrative offenses.
Activist crashed, accusations against police
There was a serious accident on Sunday: an activist fell from a three to four meter tripod; the background is not known. While police said there was “no direct contact with the person,” the activists alleged that the forces intentionally cut the tripod rope. According to the police, the woman can be contacted and received medical attention.
Fight for the Dannenröder Forest
The planned section of the A49 runs from Stadtallendorf to Gemünden (Felda). To this end, around 64 hectares of forest will be cut down, of which 27 in the Dannenröder forest. The forest area is privately owned and, according to Hubertus Bieneck, operations manager of the forest owners’ association Schenck zu Schweinsberg, covers an area of around 1,000 hectares.
Environmental and climate protectors consider the highway project outdated because it gets in the way of a traffic change. Proponents, on the other hand, expect less traffic noise in surrounding villages, shorter distances for commuters, and a more direct connection to the road network for businesses.