Shortly before the start of the European Championship game between Germany and France on Tuesday evening, a paramotor plane landed in the stadium – an action by Greenpeace – with consequences.
Berlin (AP) – Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock has clearly condemned the unsuccessful Greenpeace campaign in the Munich EM stadium.
“This stadium action was of course totally wrong and irresponsible and is hard to criticize,” said Baerbock on Thursday in Berlin at the presentation of her book “Jetzt. How we renew our country ”.
Shortly before the European Championship game between Germany and France kicked off on Tuesday evening, a paramotor pilot put himself and the fans in the arena in danger with an emergency landing in the stadium. Two men were injured. The environmental organization Greenpeace was behind the campaign and wanted to protest against the European Championship sponsor Volkswagen. Greenpeace apologized.
Baerbock added: “But there too: I’m just experiencing what kind of games political competitors are doing here.” Using individual campaigns in the election campaign or “exploiting the statements of intellectuals, that’s not my type of election campaign, and I won’t take part in that “. On the question of the non-profit status of organizations, there are clear legal regulations that every politician should be aware of.
Several politicians, including the former Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz (CDU) and Bavaria’s interior minister, had called for the public benefit of Greenpeace to be put to the test after the action.
Baerbock also obviously referred to the reaction of CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak to the video message from publicist Carolin Emcke at the Green Party conference. Emcke had warned against anti-science, populism and prejudice, among other things, and then said: “We will certainly speak of the elite again. And then presumably it will not be the Jews and cosmopolitans, not the feminists or the virologists, who are warned against, but the climatologists. “
She showed quotes in the criticized quote in the video, for example in front of the phrase “elites” or “Jews and cosmopolitans”.
Ziemiak had accused Emcke of a “history-forgotten derailment” on Saturday and was heavily criticized for it. He took back the allegations on Tuesday evening after speaking to Emcke and deleted the original tweet.
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