Several climate activists in penguin costumes tried to block the Sylt airport on Friday morning. A police spokeswoman said on Friday in Flensburg that some of them had gotten onto the airport premises. The spokeswoman could not say how many of them were on the premises.
Airport employees were quickly on the spot and had prevented several activists from climbing over a fence onto the airport site, as a dpa photographer said. But they still managed to hold up posters and signs. It said, among other things, “Planes to scrap metal.” Passers-by also tried to arrest the activists in the morning and hand them over to the police.
The group “Stay on the ground” wanted to “set a sign against the extreme injustice of private jets and air traffic” with the action, as they announced on Friday. Originally, they wanted to occupy the entrance to the private flight terminal and ride bicycles across the runway, it said. The Hamburg-Sylt route is one of the busiest private jet routes in Germany.
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