The busiest airport in Germany, Frankfurt, had to temporarily halt arrivals and departures on Thursday because environmental activists were forcing their way onto the apron.
According to an airport spokesman, traffic was stopped for two hours during the popular summer vacation before the first landing runway could reopen at 0502 GMT. A departure runway reopened soon after, and a second would soon follow. When the airport begins to operate at full capacity again, travellers are advised to check the status of their flights.
Earlier, police declared they were “doing everything” to remove the demonstrators from the tarmac. Six members of the environmental activist group Letzte Generation (Last Generation) allegedly used pincers to make holes in the wire fence before traveling “by foot, with bicycles and skateboards, to different points around the runways.
Last Generation activists stuck themselves to the tarmac at Cologne-Bonn airport on Wednesday, causing traffic disruptions for several hours. At London’s Heathrow airport, many demonstrators against climate change were detained.
The protest organizers are a part of the A22 Network, a coalition of organizations dedicated to nonviolent climate protests, which announced that they intended to cause disruptions at airports across multiple nations in the upcoming months.
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