Members of the environmental activist group Last Generation have glued themselves to an orchestra conductor’s music stand before a classical music concert at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie concert hall on Wednesday evening.
In a video posted by the group on Twitter, a woman and a man wearing orange vests can be seen climbing onto the lectern on the stage of the concert hall in the northern German city.
They then begin to address the audience and call for resistance against the German government’s climate policies, which, in the activists’ view, are lax, DPA has reported.
«Just as there is only one Beethoven violin concerto, we only have this planet whose limits we despise so much that climate-related catastrophes are becoming more frequent and deadly,» says one activist in the video released by the organization.
He also points out that the Elbphilharmonie, a landmark building in Hamburg’s harbor, would be threatened if water levels continue to rise.
A police spokesman confirmed to the aforementioned agency that two activists had attached themselves to a railing of the Great Hall of the Elbphilharmonie shortly after 8 pm.
They later detached themselves from the railing of the conductor’s rostrum and were arrested.
