"We're here, we're loud because you're stealing our future," mostly young people and schoolchildren chanted on Friday at the "Fridays for Future" demonstration in Wiesbaden's Reisinger facilities.

The colorful train then moved along Bahnhofstrasse in the direction of the city centre.

Under the motto "people not profit" the organization had called for protests all over the world.

In Wiesbaden alone, the organizers had announced 2000 participants, who did not come.

In the end there were only about 300. But this time many older demonstrators lined up, in addition to "grandmas against the right" and "grandfathers against the right" were there.

Markus Schug

Correspondent Rhein-Main-Süd.

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In Frankfurt, the response was significantly greater, according to the police, around 1,200 participants took part, and the organizers even spoke of tens of thousands.

According to police estimates, a good 500 demonstrators came to the rally in Mainz in the afternoon.

A rethinking of climate protection can be seen among the population, said the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer (SPD), as a guest speaker on Schillerplatz.

Representatives of the Fridays for Future movement handed her a list of demands.

Climate protection and sustainability are major challenges, according to Dreyer, who was accompanied by members of the Rhineland-Palatinate Future Council for Sustainable Development.

The chair of this body, the sociologist Jutta Allmendinger, made it clear: "These young people are fighting very specifically for their own future."

Violence as a "last resort"

The demonstrators in Wiesbaden demanded, among other things, the end of all subsidies for fossil fuels and the initiation of a "radical, socially just change in mobility".

In addition to the well-known slogans such as "nuclear power, no thanks", "transport turnaround now" and "climate justice", there were also banners calling for more radical steps.

“Connecting conflicts, overcoming oppression” was written on a banner, the black-clad bearer, when asked, spoke out in favor of using violence as a “last solution”.

"We only have one earth, if it's broken, everything is broken," said the eighteen-year-old, who did not want to give his name.

"Many have other worries because of the war and the corona pandemic," said 15-year-old Fiona about the lower participation in Wiesbaden and her friend Evelina added: "But it's no use just worrying about the current problems if you're because of of climate change has no future.” For the two women from Wiesbaden, climate change is still by far the greatest concern.

17-year-old Elena from the Biebrich district said: "I'm here because I have the feeling that we can only change something if we are many." //