Your rebellion is now costing a riot tourist money – BZ Berlin
The blockade women had chained themselves with others to the gate of the Federal Ministry of Transport on October 5, 2020: sit-in blockade by “Extinction Rebellion” on Habersaathstraße (middle).
by Anne Losensky
It blocks the fire brigade access. For hours they refused to give way. The police repeatedly asked them to leave the area. Then officers came with the angle grinder and flexed open the metal pipes in which they had chained their hands together.
After the protest action, the trial before the Berlin district court followed on Friday.
According to the indictment, what the rebels considered to be non-violent resistance is an attempt to “unlawfully force people to stop using force and at the same time, in serious cases, a public official who is responsible for enforcing laws and ordinances to do so to have resisted an official act by force”.
Melanie G. (26, unemployed) from Hamburg faces the process. Her criminal proceedings will be dropped if she pays 750 euros.
Anna Z. (31) from Switzerland is playing truant. She too has to pay 750 euros, but that is a conviction by penal order (50 daily rates of 15 euros each).