Leipzig (dpa / sn) - Saxony's Interior Minister Armin Schuster wants to investigate the networks of climate activists to prevent crime, according to a newspaper report. The law enforcement authorities would have to determine whether there were network or group-like structures and investigate the question "who is in control," said the CDU politician to the "Leipziger Volkszeitung". It is important to get "in front of the situation".
"When so-called activists stick to art treasures or on roads or runways, and also block power plants, there are serious threats to public safety," Schuster told the newspaper. He also thinks it makes sense to take activists into custody as a preventive measure "to prevent known repeat offenders from carrying out an action on an airport site".
The Saxon Police Enforcement Service Act allows preventive detention for up to 14 days to prevent criminal offenses. Before that, however, other measures such as threats would have to be exhausted, according to the Minister of the Interior.
The results of the Interior Ministers' Conference (IMK), which has been meeting since Wednesday, should be presented in Munich on Friday afternoon. Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said in the ZDF "Morgenmagazin" that there was agreement that "serious criminal offenses" by supporters of the "Last Generation" group must be combated. Also on Friday, the activist group wanted to announce their next steps. In the past few weeks, they have repeatedly blocked roads, attacked works of art or temporarily paralyzed the capital's BER airport in Berlin.
