"Bullshit" calls one, the other tries to storm the podium. An incident occurs during a performance by Chancellor Scholz at the Kirchentag. Three climate activists are now on trial, one of them also because of the incident.
Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - After an interjection at an event with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), a climate activist in Stuttgart today (12.30 p.m.) has to answer in court. He is said to have disrupted the Chancellor's appearance at the Church Congress in Stuttgart at the end of May. Because he then defended himself against a police officer, he is accused of resisting law enforcement officers and negligent bodily harm. He is also on trial in the same trial for trespassing with two other climate activists. The trio climbed onto a crane at the Stuttgart 21 construction site in December and unrolled a banner at a dizzy height to protest against the major railway project.
At the Scholz event at the Kirchentag, a climate activist tried to storm the stage, but was prevented from doing so by security forces. The other activist, who has now been accused, shouted "bullshit" when Scholz was talking about phasing out coal-fired power generation and the jobs that would be lost in opencast mining as a result. He defended himself against the subsequent house ban. Supporters have called for a protest at the district court for the start of the process.
Scholz had criticized the heckling with reference to targeted disruptive actions in the past, but left open what he was referring to. The climate activist Luisa Neubauer then accused him of comparing "climate activists with Nazis". Scholz rejected that. His words could also be understood as an allusion to the disruption of events by radicalized student groups in the 1970s.
