Eco-activists threw a cake at the head of the Volkswagen Supervisory Board, Wolfgang Porsche (3 photos + 2 videos)
The demonstrators said the automaker was selling too many cars.
Environmental activists, together with human rights activists, tried to disrupt the annual meeting of the Volkswagen shareholders in Berlin. Near 10 demonstrators somehow leaked into the event and staged poor there.
They threw it at a Volkswagen supervisory board member Wolfgang Porsche, who is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Porche and Audi, cake. Luckily for him, they missed. However, the confectionery almost hit the head of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, who was speaking behind the podium Volkswagen to Hans Dieter Pötsch.
After the unsuccessful "bombing", the activists deployed their banners and started shouting slogans. Among the demonstrators was even a half-naked girl with "Dirty Money" written on her back.
In addition to calls to save the planet, sell less vehicles and refocus its activities on the production trains and railway infrastructure, the leadership of the auto giant was also accused of forced labor of the Uighurs. Yes, you heard right. human rights activists believe that the Volkswagen plant in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region China violates the rights of this national minority.
As a result, the demonstrators were dragged out of the hall, and the leadership automaker continued its meeting. It is noted that in front of the building where shareholders gathered, there were also protests. The police succeeded stop the crazy planet savers from sticking themselves to the asphalt. But this they are, of course, in vain. Sit down and think.