The environmental protection organization WWF sees the paint attack by the Last Generation group on the Basic Law artwork in the Berlin government district as counterproductive for the concern of climate protection. “That’s wrong symbolism. The climate protest is being done a disservice here,” said Christoph Heinrich, executive director of WWF Germany, to the newspapers of the Bayern media group.
“I am concerned that climate protection through such actions could only be perceived by the population as a concern of extremists,” added Heinrich. Defiling monuments to the Basic Law is like casting doubt on the Basic Law. “And that should not be the message of the Last Generation,” warned Heinrich.
“Oil or fundamental rights?”
On Saturday, activists from the Last Generation group threw a black liquid on the glass walls of Israeli artist Dani Karavan’s art installation “Grundgesetz 49”. They smeared them with brushes on the panes on which the laser-engraved 19 articles of the Basic Law are written. They stuck posters above them with the inscription “Oil or basic rights?”.
Regarding the actions, in which members of the last generation stick to the streets and block traffic, Heinrich said: “It’s provocative, it’s annoying, but that’s how protest is. You can somehow still talk about such forms. In addition, that against car traffic, which is relevant to the climate.
