the gist In Germany, an activist from the Last Generation collective stuck his hand in the street and it took more work than expected to untie him and remove his hand from the asphalt.
A German activist stuck his hand in the street in Mainz on December 9. The man, a member of the German collective Last Generation (last generation, Ed), had to wait for the jackhammer to be pulled out of the bitumen and stuck his hand in the asphalt for many hours, according to Liberation.
According to several German media, including BILD, the 38-year-old is a comedian named Raúl Semmler. During the action, six militants attempted to block one of the main roads from Mainz to Germany. There were four of them to put their hands on the floor. According to a local police press release transmitted by CheckNews, “the intervention forces of the technical intervention unit of the police headquarters ‘Intervention, Logistics and Technology’ were able to remove the glue from three people at the olive oil aid. The specially trained riot police were able to draw on the experience of other federal states and are prepared for such scenarios with special equipment.”
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But for Raúl Semmler, the experience was more complicated, as the police said: “The 38-year-old was so stuck that he could not be easily released.” To do this, employees of the road traffic service first had to cut through the asphalt with a mill and a jackhammer , then remove it”.
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The police specify that investigations into “violation of the assembly law, disturbance of public order and damage to property” have been initiated. According to CheckNews, Raúl Semmler assures that he is “fine and so is my hand” and that he was even able to take part in another action of the group in Berlin this Monday, December 12th.