Angry farmers attempted to block the arrival of a ferry carrying German Vice Chancellor, Green Party leader and Minister of Economy Robert Habeck. German government spokesman Steffen Hebeestreit called the action “shameful and in violation of the rules of democratic existence” on his social network X page.
“Today’s blockade of Federal Minister Habeck’s arrival at the ferry dock is shameful and violates the rules of democratic co-existence. With all understanding of a vibrant protest culture: such brutality of political mores should leave no one indifferent,” he wrote.
On Thursday, 4 January, Robert Habeck was returning from a holiday in the north of the country, but a crowd of more than a hundred angry farmers, who were unhappy about the subsidies being cancelled, was waiting for him at the Schlutzschild wharf.
The leader of the Green Party asked the protesters to send him some delegates for dialogue, but was refused. Part of the protesters then tried to break through to the ferry, the police used pepper gas against them.
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