Climate activists from the “Last Generation” group arrived on the runways at Hamburg and Düsseldorf airports on Thursday morning. At the start of the holiday in Hamburg, several people stuck to the runway, the group said. Due to a police operation, flight operations have been suspended since 6.10 a.m., the airport said. “Takes off and landings are currently not possible.”
According to the airport operator, a group of people gained unauthorized access to the airport site near the runway system. A spokesman for the Hamburg police situation center also confirmed an operation. The environmental protection activists wrote on Twitter about the actions: “We protest against the planlessness and the government’s breach of the law in the climate crisis.”
At the same time, activists of the last generation stuck to the area of the airport in Düsseldorf.
Police forces tried to detach members of the activist group “Last Generation” from the tarmac at Dusseldorf Airport.
(Photo: David Young/dpa)
According to a dpa photographer, six or seven people were on one of the taxiways to the runway in the morning. Flight operations are therefore severely restricted. A large number of emergency services are on site.
According to their own statements, the climate activists cut through a fence to get to the apron of the airfield.