Berlin, Cologne-Bonn, Nuremberg: Last Generation climate activists halt flights at German airports

The group wants Germany and other governments to sign a Fossil Fuel Treaty.

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00:00Climate activists disrupted flights at four major airports in Germany after they glued

00:07themselves to the tarmac.

00:10Eight activists from the German branch of the last generation climate group held banners

00:15that read oil kills while they blocked runways in Berlin, Cologne-Bonn, Nuremberg and Stuttgart

00:21airport.

00:23It follows a string of similar protests this summer.

00:26The group demands the German government to sign an agreement on the global exit of fossil

00:31fuels by 2030.

00:34Interior Minister Nancy Faeser calls the actions dangerous and stupid on social media platform

00:40X.

00:41She points to legislation approved by the German cabinet last month that would impose

00:46tougher sanctions on those who illegally enter airport perimeters.

00:50The disruption lasted around two hours.

00:53According to media reports, the protesters glued themselves to taxiways and did not involve

00:58main runways.