Overview
- Organisers from Fridays for Future, Greenpeace, BUND and Campact led a large demonstration on Saturday that organisers said drew about 5,000 people while police put attendance at roughly 2,700; about 2,000 participants formed a symbolic movable human wind turbine near the Gersteinwerk.
- The direct‑action group Ende Gelände staged coordinated 'five‑finger' blockades across the Ruhr, including actions at KNDS in Mülheim, Europipe rail lines and the Scholven power plant in Gelsenkirchen, in an effort to disrupt gas infrastructure and related industry sites.
- Police opened hundreds of criminal investigations after the weekend actions, with authorities in Gelsenkirchen reporting 258 proceedings linked to the Scholven incursion for offences such as trespass and damage.
- A Klimacamp near the Gersteinwerk continues for several more days with over a thousand participants, and police tactics over the weekend included redirected routes, encirclements and detentions of activists, one of whom was internationally known campaigner Greta Thunberg who was briefly held.
- Protesters say the federal plan to build roughly 20 hydrogen‑ready gas blocks, led by Minister Katherina Reiche, risks long‑term fossil lock‑in and diverts investment from renewables, a political pressure point that the movement expects to use to push for policy change and further legal and public scrutiny.