UN Chief Praises 'Moral Voice' of German Climate Activists Targeted in Police Raids

'It is clear that a lot of the progress that we have seen on awareness on climate change and positive movement on climate change is due to the fact that people have been demonstrating peacefully throughout the world,' said StephDujarric.

"It is clear that a lot of the progress that we have seen on awareness on climate change and positive movement on climate change is due to the fact that people have been demonstrating peacefully throughout the world."The spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday commended climate activists in Germany after policefollowing months of traffic-disrupting protests against the government's failure to adequately address the climate emergency.

Last Wednesday, around 170 masked and armed police officers raided the homes of activists from the Germany-based international direct action group Letzte Generation—or Last Generation—in seven German states while shutting down the organization's website and freezing multiple bank accounts. ;&#x201cBREAKING: German police are staging the world's first nationwide raid on climate activists. The goal: shut down a group called"Last Generation" that engages in peaceful protest to save the planet.\n\nWill they also arrest the fossil fuel executives?\nhttps://t.co/W5RxXfmDmq;&#x201dNo arrests were reported. However, authorities accused seven activists of raising at least $1.5 million to finance"criminal acts.

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