After three men from the last generation started their captivity on Monday, two more women followed on Tuesday: the climate activists already known in the media Anja Windl (27) and Laila Fuisz (23) are expected to spend 42 days in jail.
Despite her alternative prison sentence, Windl only has one thing to say: “What panics me is not the prison sentence. It is the escalating climate catastrophe.” Not only she and Fuisz, but also three other men will soon no longer be able to protest in the streets of Austria. The men had already started their prison sentence at the beginning of this week.
“The whole of southern Germany, regions of Upper and Lower Austria and Vorarlberg are under water – and we who want to prevent that are being locked up,” the 27-year-old complains. The group itself has already commented on the detention on Platform X (see above). “We are racing towards a world that is three degrees warmer. A world three degrees warmer means the end of human civilization. What are a few weeks in prison compared to the loss of everything I hold dear?” asked Laila Fuisz (23), a few hours before she was to go to prison.
Windl again addressed the Austrian Chancellor with criticism: “How significant that Karl Nehammer is inviting people to the car summit towards the end of combustion engines – during the next flood of the century in a few years. Are we as a society so ‘frayed’ that, given the facts, we simply live our daily lives and carry on as if nothing has happened?”
While five activists in Austria are serving their alternative prison sentences, German hunger strikers Wolfgang Metzler-Kick and Adrian Lack went on a dry hunger strike on Wednesday. Metzler Kick was briefly hospitalized on Tuesday. His condition is according to German media. Without water, people can survive for about three days. “And all this is just because the German Chancellor cannot say that the climate catastrophe is a threat to society,” Fuisz said.
At the end of May, Windl caused a stir online. In a cheeky Instagram video, the 27-year-old showed off her thoughts on the arrest warrant by feeding the note to a donkey.
Source: Krone
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