It starts with the fact that the lecture is almost over anyway when climate activists hijack a lecture hall at the University of Regensburg. Students from the “End Fossil Regensburg” group hang banners on the boards and make it clear that they intend to spend the night there until Friday morning – in protest against the environmental pollution caused by coal and gas and to hold information workshops on climate protection and social justice.
One of the activists apparently feels obliged to make it clear to the cast: “This is not a bank robbery. You can all leave if you want to.” There was actually nothing ambush-like here, because the cast had been announced. The university management was informed and even agreed! Planned lectures have been postponed, writes the Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Several questions arise: Is this still an occupation? And does it even hurt enough? Why don’t the students stick themselves in front of the entrance to the really huge parking lot of the Regensburg university?
The culture of protest is such a thing in Bavaria. In fact, Bavarians traditionally do not like being told what they can and cannot do. As long as they have their peace, it runs off quite harmoniously. At the same time, or precisely because of this, the authorities in the Free State have a tendency to take action – or to take action ahead of time, see sticky “Last Generation” demonstrators who are summarily taken into preventive custody in Bavaria. But if the state power gets too wild or the beer gets too expensive, Bavaria can explode.
Instead of exploding, there is a lot of discussion about people who, out of desperation at a world that is running into the climate catastrophe with its eyes wide open, cling to highways. Ah, the poor asphalt. Moderator Markus Lanz had to get so upset that he recently enlightened the “Last Generation” spokeswoman on his show that humans can adapt to global warming. Yes, that raises questions too. For example, whether Lanz means the warming of another planet or has not spent the last few years on this earth.
In view of this delusion, presented with the usual self-confidence, one wants to encourage the possibly a bit too nice squatters in lecture hall 2 and remind them of the successful protests of their Upper Palatinate compatriots against the nuclear reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf. There used to be more bank robbery.