“Rethink Methods”: Dead Cyclist’s Sister Calls on Climate Activists Raid on UBS in Germany – Russian Oligarch in Sight

“I think I just want to tell them what I’ve been through and then give them a chance to throw themselves into this hell,” Anja Umann told the news magazine on Tuesday. The activists must ask themselves “if there is no other way to fight for the survival of our planet without potentially harming other people”.

“My sister and I share the goals of the movement 100 percent,” Umann continued. But it hurts her a lot “how ignorantly some climate activists accept the death of people who may be working for environmental protection and other people themselves”.

Umann also responded with incomprehension to calls for tougher penalties for roadblocks, comparisons with the RAF and preventive detention of some climate activists in Bavaria. “I have the impression that drastic is reacting to drastic — something extreme is coming up that I’m not sure I support,” she said.

Umann’s sister was run over by a cement mixer in Berlin on Monday. She succumbed to her injuries on Thursday evening. A special fire truck was stuck in traffic on Monday after the accident due to protests from last-generation activists and therefore arrived late at the accident site.

The Berlin police therefore filed charges against two protesters, including for failing to provide aid. After the accident, politicians from various parties criticized the demonstrators’ methods. (sda/afp)