Climate Activists Briefly Disrupt Munich Airport Operations

  • Protesters from Letzte Generation access airport, tarmac
  • Group has been targeted by authorities in criminal probe

Climate activists on the runway at Munich Airport early on May 18.

Photographer: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/picture alliance/Getty Images

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Munich Airport was closed for some hours early Saturday after climate activists accessed the runway as part of a campaign calling for more government action against greenhouse emissions.

The group - Letzte Generation, or Last Generation - said in a statement that they’d blocked the tarmac before the regular start of flights for the day.