The Interior Ministry announced this in the followingnoon. “Both the people arrested and the other participants in these disruptive actions are threatened with severe penalties due to the offenses committed,” the ministry said in a statement. There have been around 200 arrests since the beginning of the year.
With Friday’s 31 arrests, there have been a total of 975 arrests of climate activists since the beginning of 2023. In order to maintain public order and security, disruptive demonstrations that cause significant disruption are regularly banned by the authorities and stopped by the police, according to the Interior Ministry.
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The focus is on ending the disruption as quickly as possible. Where there is little or no obstruction, the actions are usually not stopped, which means that the police do not have to intervene. But even with each of these incidents, a large number of administrative complaints would be filed once morest everyone involved, it was said.
The activists had blocked traffic on the Eastern Motorway (A4) early in the morning. According to their own statements, around 50 protesters stuck themselves to the road near Simmeringer Haide in the city center or blocked traffic on skateboards, bicycles or other means of transport. The police broke up the meeting a short time later. There were extensive traffic jams.
