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20 minutes – Army exercise horrifies climate activists

100 violent activists act at a climate demonstration with 600 people in Lausanne «unorganized», «unpredictable» and «in small groups». The result is a “street battle in the Lausanne area”. Protesters lost their fingers when they were crushed against a gate. Others suffered bruises from the police batons.

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Soldiers on the repeat course had to support the authorities because the «spontaneous riots» of the violent population overwhelmed the civilian authorities.

Overwhelmed authorities

The images come from a fictional scenario by Brigadier Guy Vallat. On January 27, he carried out the “Nostro Clima” exercise with the soldiers of medical company 6.

The soldiers should now prevent the injured from the hostile camps from clashing. The climate youth had celebrated the one-year anniversary of the climate strike with Lausanne’s Greta Thunberg just ten days earlier. The demo with several thousand students was peaceful.

Military criminalize peaceful activists

CH-Media reported on the exercise on Friday. This was demonstrated by activists from the climate strike in a jointly formulated statement “horrified” about the army exercise, as the “Switzerland at the weekend” writes.

They strongly condemned the increasing criminalization of peaceful climate activists who exercised their right to freedom of expression and protest by the federal intelligence service and the military, according to the activists of Climate Strike Switzerland.

The group for a Switzerland without an army also criticized the exercise on Twitter as “completely absurd”. According to the newspaper, the army says it did not want to judge the environmentalists.

(Bz)

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