A cyclist collided with a concrete mixer truck in Berlin on the morning of October 31, 2022 and was seriously injured. The fire brigade was quickly on site, but was unable to free the injured woman immediately. That's why she requested a special device. The problem: Traffic was backed up on the highway between the fire station with the special vehicle and the scene of the accident. The reason for this: the closure of two lanes due to an action by climate activists from the Last Generation . The woman was able to be freed without any equipment, but later died in hospital.

Fire and police departments share misinformation

In the afternoon, the fire department blamed climate activists for the delays, but later admitted that the relevant time of delay was less than 10 minutes. The Germany editorial network did the math and came up with under three minutes. The emergency doctor had already decided that she did not want to lift the concrete mixer, the Süddeutsche Zeitung an internal note from the fire department.

The Berlin police are also very quick to judge and verbally attack the activists. It is time to say goodbye to the “fairy tale of harmless protest,” said police union spokesman Benjamin Jendro. “Anyone who blocks traffic routes risks and hinders the ability of internal security to act and also consciously accepts that people in need will have to wait longer for help from the police and fire brigade.” The police are now investigating two climate demonstrators for failing to provide assistance Disability of people providing assistance.

She forgets to mention that the Last Generation activists had stuck themselves to a sign bridge above the city highway. The police ensured that two lanes below were blocked. “We informed the police before entering the sign bridge and asked for emergency vehicles to be redirected and the A 100 to be completely closed to car traffic,” said the last generation.

Politics and the media are taking up the issue

Meanwhile, politicians from the CDU, SPD and AfD are calling for harsher punishments for those who block the movement. “There is no justification for endangering the lives of others,” postulates Berlin’s Interior Senator Iris Spranger, “these blockers are consciously taking the population hostage and accepting the dangers.”

Disgraceful interaction between politics and the press

What happens next can be seen in a statement from the activists :

We knew that a lot would come our way. We knew we would make a lot of enemies. Because we interrupt people. Because we are disruptive. Because we are making the terrible things public. We didn't expect that an entire media system would turn against us.

Since Monday, a wave of accusations, untruths and hate speech has broken over us. A wave different than ever before. From private to public media. Previously, we were sold neutral, fact-based reporting as a basic journalistic principle. Today we hardly read, see or hear reporting based on this principle in a single media.

So that we don't misunderstand each other: the fact that the cyclist had an accident in traffic is terrible. We are devastated and in sadness. But it is time to draw a line.

“Statement on the accident: It is time to draw a line” dated November 4, 2022

Critical considerations

Publicist and communications consultant Mirko Lange writes on Facebook: “Regardless of whether you think the Last Generation is stupid or not, the narrative that their actions helped cause the cyclist's death is, based on the facts, simply stupid nonsense. The numbers clearly show that the cyclist was actually freed faster without the recovery vehicle than would ever have been possible with a recovery vehicle - even without any traffic jams. “

The RND article “also clearly states that emergency vehicles are constantly hindered: by construction sites, accidents, rush-hour traffic, illegal parking, second-row parking, undeveloped emergency lanes and so on. This debate is so incredibly hypocritical. Anyone who is not popular is 'highly sterilized' to become a potential murderer, but otherwise they don't want to be,” argues Lange. “This is all very tragic. In every relationship. But the fact that the media, as if by magic, immediately agree on who is “the culprit” and that dozens of politicians and lobbyists immediately join the canon, I find it frightening again.

That's exactly how we see it at Mimikama.


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