Fluglärmprotest dehnt sich europaweit aus

Der Fluglärmprotest dehnt sich europaweit aus: auch in Nantes (Frankreich) wird es am 24. März Proteste gegen Fluglärm geben
UK airport
campaigners have sent messages of support to their fellow campaigners in Germany
and France who will be staging major demonstrations against airport expansion on
Saturday 24th March. In Germany tens of thousands of people are
expected to turn out in at least five cities. In Frankfurt as many as 20,000
people could occupy the terminal. And, in Munich the campaigners against the
proposed third runway will hold as picnic in the terminal. In Nantes the
demonstrators will occupy the centre of the city.

The big
demonstrations in Frankfurt have been sparked by the impact of the fourth runway
opened by Chancellor Angela Merkel in October. Every Monday evening since it
opened up to 5,000 people have occupied the terminal at the airport in protest
against the noise of the new flight paths (1). Their Saturday demonstrations have attracted as many as 20,000
residents.

In Munich
climate change activists and local residents have joined forces to fight the
proposed third runway. In Berlin the protests are against a newly-opened
airport. At Cologne and Leipzig night flights are the big problem. In France
the demonstration is part of a long-running, high-profile campaign to stop the
building of Nantes International Airport.

HACAN
Chair John Stewart, who has visited the campaigners in Munich, Frankfurt and
Nantes, said: “These protests give the lie to the impression always given by the
UK aviation industry that airports in Europe will continue to expand. It is
clear that it is becoming virtually impossible to build a new runway anywhere in
Western Europe.”