Lower Saxony and Bremen
1500 to 2000 people demonstrate in Hanover
22/10/2022 14:52
Hanover (dpa / lni) – More than a thousand people demonstrated in Hanover ahead of rising energy costs for more support. As part of the national campaign, people called for more aid, a cap on electricity and gas prices, and an end to dependence on fossil fuels, organizers said in a statement. Trade unions and social and environmental protection organizations had asked for the demonstration.
According to the police, 1,500 people attended the event. The organizers talked about over 2000. The demonstration at Groseriedplatz in central Hanover took place under the motto “Solidarity through the crisis: create social security and end fossil addictions”.
Inadequate the “reactions of the federal government to the energy crisis triggered by Putin’s war of aggression”, criticized in a joint statement by associations and trade unions. They called for the skimming of so-called excess profits and the reduction of climate-damaging subsidies to finance “huge investments in renewable energy”. Susanne Gerstner, Lower Saxony state president of the Federation for Environment and Nature Conservation, called for “massive investments in sustainable mobility” from the future state government.
At the same time there were also protests in Berlin, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main and Dresden.
