When you look back at what happened in the Fechenheim Forest in a few weeks, two pictures in particular will stick in your memory.
SEK officers abseiling from a 75 meter high crane, floating in the air.
And that of an activist who, in a daring action, slides down a rope as if falling.
It's cold on this Thursday morning, sleet is coming soon.
And the cat-and-mouse game between cops and squatters has only just begun that day.
The officials' goal is a "highpod", a special construction that forest squatters build to prevent the surrounding trees from being cleared.
The platform on poles, stretched with ropes, is designed to collapse in on itself if one or more ropes are cut.
It is the supreme discipline among the tree houses because it is the most difficult to dismantle.
When the "highpod" falls, the resistance soon falls too.
Catherine Iskandar
Responsible editor for the "Rhein-Main" department of the Sunday newspaper.
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Ralph Euler
Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung, responsible for the Rhein-Main section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.
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It seems that climate activism can no longer do without symbolism.
The movement thrives on radicalism and maximum attention.
When, like followers of the “last generation”, they stick themselves to the asphalt of streets or destroy works of art in museums.
When protesting against the expansion of the A 49 in connection with the clearing in the Dannenröder forest, activists abseiled down motorway bridges in the flowing traffic.
Even in the Fechenheim forest, the police are not welcome.
And yet the protest remains what it should be: a peaceful demonstration against a motorway project that many residents of eastern Frankfurt and many commuters welcome - but which is also controversial.
Perhaps the evacuation of the "Fecher" is going so smoothly by the weekend because the police made it clear from the start that they were only doing one job.
A balance of interests.
On the one hand the right to freedom of expression and protest, on the other hand the possibility of implementing a procedure that has been tested under the rule of law, namely the construction of a connection between the A 66 and A 661 motorways.
The residents of the Riederwald have waited too long to finally be relieved of the daily traffic.
Too often commuters have been stuck in traffic because nothing worked.
Not many joined the protest camp
This time, however, the police did something that could be described as strategic communication, which in this case, when it comes to climate protection, is far more than a tactical tool: they showed a certain understanding of the protest.
Days before the eviction, Frankfurt police chief Stefan Müller was asked if he had an opinion on the infrastructure project.
He has said he does not comment, the police have to be neutral.
Finally, one sentence was said: He just wanted to say: "I too am interested in this planet continuing to exist for as long as possible, that's clear." And that's how the police officers stand on the second day of the eviction at the clearing area, where one tree after the next is being ripped out of the ground at a rate
that the eye can hardly follow.
One says it's "creepy".
Demonstrators are standing at the edge of the forest, drumming, singing and shouting.
There is no trace of the kind of violence that some politicians have practically conjured up.