Frankfurt Airport has temporarily suspended flights following protests by climate activists

On the morning of July 25, Ultima Generazione activists entered Frankfurt airport, which was blocked for a few hours.

Frankfurt airport, the largest and busiest in Germany with almost 60 million passengers last year, in the morning of Thursday 25 July was forced to temporarily suspend flights.Six climate activists by Letzte Generation (Latest Generation), in fact, they managed to cut through a fence and arrive near the runways, gluing their hands to the asphalt and showing signs with the words "Oil kills".

The company that manages the airport, around 9:30 in the morning, issued a note to announce the gradual resumption of operations, however inviting passengers to check the status of their flight before reaching the facility.A spokesperson he made it known that, of the approximately 1,400 flights scheduled for Thursday, approximately 140 were cancelled.

“Airports are places where it becomes clear that today we can no longer afford what was once considered normal.Gas and coal threaten our existence,” he writes in X Letzte Generation.

Only the day before, other activists of the organization had staged a protest similar to theCologne-Bonn airport:three of them were arrested.But the airports of Oslo, Barcelona and Helsinki were also targeted by environmentalists.In Germany, Ultima Generazione calls on the government to pursue a global agreement for abandon by 2030 petrolium, gas And coal, the main ones responsible for the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and therefore for the ongoing climate crisis.