Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has expressed reservations about the Bavarian preventive measures against climate activists. “Many have serious doubts as to whether this will work as a police measure to prevent further crimes,” said Scholz on Friday evening at a panel discussion in the “Leipziger Volkszeitung”. The police can stop people from committing crimes. But whether it was right to take people into preventive custody for several days, many judges asked questions.
In Munich, climate activists were taken into preventive custody. The Bavarian Police Duties Act offers the opportunity for this. The Bavarian state government described this as an act of a well-fortified democracy.
However, the Chancellor also criticized the actions of the group “Last Generation”. “Protest is legitimate, but I don’t find the form of action understandable,” said Scholz. From his point of view, throwing tomatoes or pap at works of art has nothing to do with the climate.
Climate activists from the group “Last Generation” have been blocking important roads and sticking themselves to the asphalt for months. In this way they want to emphasize their call for a more decisive fight against climate change. Most recently, they also smeared party headquarters in Berlin and threw mashed potatoes at a Monet painting in the Barberini Museum in Potsdam.
