In Berlin, two young climate activists broke off their hunger strike on Saturday to save the climate. 19-year-old Lina Eichler from Hamburg collapsed on Saturday morning and was taken to the Charité in an ambulance. In the afternoon, she decided to stop the fast for physical reasons, said spokeswoman Hannah Lübbert of the German Press Agency. Eichler has since left the clinic. A second activist, who calls herself Mephisto, then decided to give up the action for psychological reasons.
On Saturday afternoon, a doctor in the camp near the Reichstag building urgently advised the 27-year-old Jacob Heinze from Dortmund to seek treatment.
He did that too, said Lübbert.
Heinze is still in the Charité.
The other three climate activists wanted to continue in the camp.
The group started an indefinite hunger strike in front of the Reichstag on August 30.
Your goal is, on the one hand, a public discussion with the three candidates for chancellor about climate change.
On the other hand, they are calling for a citizens' council to be set up to give politicians immediate measures to protect the climate.
Heinze was temporarily taken to a hospital on Tuesday, but continued to fast afterwards.
All three candidates for chancellor had asked the starving to break off their protest.
Then they are ready for talks, but after the federal election, individually and not in public.
Jacob Heinze and Lina Eichler started talking to Olaf Scholz on Friday after an election event.
After that, both of them said they were disturbed.
“Olaf Scholz talks in a frightening calm about his plans that will lead us straight into the climate catastrophe.
That scares me a lot, ”said Heinze in a press release on Saturday.
Environmental protection organizations such as Greenpeace had also asked climate activists to end their hunger strike.
They shared the concern, but appealed out of concern for health and wellbeing not to “jeopardize young life”.