Threats to Germany’s climate campaigners fuelled by politicians’ rhetoric, says activist

Luisa Neubauer, of Fridays for Future, cites language used by the chancellor amid protest crackdown

Severe policing and scary" political rhetoric is fuelling abuse against climate activists, Germany's best-known environmentalist has said.

It's not a shift any more, it's a slide," said Luisa Neubauer, from the German branch of Fridays for Future, the protest movement that grew out of Greta Thunberg's school strikes. There's an increase in hate language, there's an increase in threats, and the threats are getting more concrete. So they're not saying any more I hate you' but they're saying We should come to your place, we should go get you.'"