Climate: Strong mobilization in Berlin around Sweden's Greta Thunberg

At least 20,000 young people participated Friday in the German capital to a new protest against global warming.

At least 20,000 young people again went on strike in Berlin on Friday to protest against global warming in the presence of Sweden's Greta Thunberg, who has initiated a global movement. "We want a future - is it too much to ask?", Said the 16-year-old, urging young people to remain combative.

They had come to meet their model: at least 20,000, according to the police officer in charge of operations, about 25,000 according to the Berlin organizers of the movement "FridaysforFuture".

"We must panic". "The old generations have not managed to overcome the greatest crisis of humanity," Greta Thunberg continued, for the first time in Berlin, in a short speech in English. They just "pat us on the head and tell us, everything will work out (...)". "But we have to worry, we have to panic," she said.

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Like every Friday for several weeks, the young people had first gathered in front of the Ministry of Economy in Berlin. Protesters waved cardboard placards calling for "saving our planet" or "All I want for Christmas is snow". They had then won the Brandenburg Gate, in the heart of the capital.

"We will continue to dry the courses every Friday because it can not continue like that with the climate.It is necessary to pull the emergency brake," said one of the organizers of the movement Franziska Wessel.

Mobilization up since December. Since December, the mobilization of middle and high school students is increasing in Germany. From a few hundreds at the end of 2018, Friday's mobilisations have involved more than 15,000 students since mid-January, in some 50 German cities.

They crystallize largely around the exit of the coal, programmed by the government for 2038. The young demonstrators wish an advanced exit to 2030. They also claim concrete measures like the development of the supply of public transport in the big cities as well as the construction of new bike paths.