Hannover: Activists chain themselves before the Ministry of the Environment | NDR.de – Nachrichten – Lower Saxony

Several hundred young people, mostly young people, demonstrated on Friday for greater climate protection at the initiative of “Fridays for Future”. In Hanover, environmental activists from the “Extinction Rebellion” organization chained themselves in front of the Ministry of the Environment in the afternoon. According to the police, around 75 people were present at the unregistered demonstration, some of them chained together and blocked the road together. The group was only able to separate with the help of firefighters. The officials started around 50 processes for administrative infractions.

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The “Fridays for Future” (FFF) movement initially called for human chains, lantern parades, candlelight campaigns, “marching demonstrations” and online protests in around 20 cities, while observing the mask requirement and distance regulations. . In Göttingen, activists from the FFF and other environmental groups said they had temporarily blocked the office of the Greens. The action will be manifested for a radical climate policy and against the destruction of the Dannenröder forest in Hesse, said the local Göttingen group “Fridays for Future”. In Osnabrück, a human chain of about 150 people moved peacefully through the center of the city. In Lüneburg there was a vigil on the station forecourt.

Protest on wednesday

Young activists took to the streets of Hannover on Wednesday. Together with the Green Youth, they demonstrated against the country’s new climate law. In front of the state parliament, three activists donned masks on the faces of Environment Minister Olaf Lies (SPD), Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) and Economy Minister Bernd Althusmann (CDU) and played football with a symbolic balloon . “Dear GroKo, don’t play with the dirt,” they said. “With this climate law, the grand coalition is blurring the window,” said Emily Karius of “Fridays For Future” Lower Saxony.

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