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Two of the six young Germans on a “hunger strike” in the name of the climate emergency since August 30 were hospitalized on Saturday in Berlin. Aged 18 to 27, the six young people, who described their action as “Strike at the end of the last generation” and settled between the Reichstag and the Chancellery, have two demands: to meet Annalena Baerbock (Greens), Armin Laschet (CDU-CSU) and Olaf Scholz (SPD) as part of a public dialogue, September 23, three days before the elections; and the establishment of a citizens’ convention whose proposals would be binding.
On Friday evening, two of them arrested Olaf Scholz during a public meeting he was hosting in his constituency of Potsdam. The SPD candidate said he was ready to meet them, but after the September 26 poll. “We have come to an agreement with Annalena Baerbock and Armin Laschet: we are ready, each of us, to discuss with the hunger strikers after the elections”, said the candidate, asking the young people to end their hunger strike “Because it can have serious consequences on their health and it must be avoided at all costs”. A little earlier in the day, the candidate for the Greens had appealed to them in the same direction, describing their approach as “Wrong way forward”.
“Olaf Scholz speaks with an agonizing calm about his projects which lead us directly into the midst of a climate catastrophe”, was indignant one of the two young hunger strikers present in Potsdam on Friday evening.
On the evening of Friday, the NGO Greenpeace also appealed to the six high school and college students to stop their hunger strike: “We share the protesters’ concern for their future, but we call on them, out of concern for their health, not to put their future and their lives as young people at risk”Greenpeace Germany President Martin Kaiser said in a statement.
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