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It was October 28, 2022 between 1:29 PM and 1:32 PM. Three minutes. Three minutes that cost Jörg Alt dear. During this period, the activist and Jesuit priest was taken off the streets during a tape blockade in Munich.

And the Munich police would have filed a claim of 250 euros for this, as the Nuremberger published on his Twitter channel on Tuesday. “Wow,” he writes. “The hourly rate is higher than that of my law firm.”

What does it cost to take a climate sticker off the street? The Munich police seem to have set a price for this. You have estimated 250 euros – for three minutes of assistance. Alt publishes a letter from the Munich police on his channels, which he claims to have received. Alt sees this as another attempt to deter climate protesters from their actions, he explains to t-online.

When asked by t-online, Alt explains that costs will be charged in addition to the fine. Probably Nuremberg’s best-known activist, he regularly campaigns in the media for containers or against the criminalization of climate activists.

The police justifies the costs – as can be seen from the photo in Alt’s contribution – with the force to be applied immediately. With the help of solvents and specially trained personnel who had to be called in. In addition to the three minutes, this required a significant amount of time and enormous human resources for the Munich police headquarters, according to the letter the activist made public.

Meanwhile, the contribution in the comments evokes different reactions: some find the extra “expense allowance” brutal, others still too low. An argument also broke out between the Munich police social media team and Alt. Namely whether there are also such cost sharing at football matches or other events that bind many police forces.

The officials refer to an action on October 28, 2022, when the theologian blocked the main artery for the Stachus in Munich with other activists and scientists. Alt now repeats: “It was a protest from scientists.” Her appeal to the Bavarian police regarding preventive detention: “Stop preventive detention to lock up people who try to generate attention for scientific findings.”

Since he hadn’t been home for three weeks, he saw the letter too late – and couldn’t meet the deadline, Alt explains to t-online. And what is he doing now? Wait, Alt replies.