Chancellor Scholz Urges World Health Summit to Continue After Protesters Pull Fire Alarm in Berlin
Climate activists protested by gluing themselves to entranceways and sounding fire alarms during the opening ceremonies of World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany on Sunday, October 16.
Scientist Rebellion, a climate emergency activist organization comprised of scientists and academics, claimed responsibility for the protest.
Video filmed by summit attendee Daniel Hartmann shows Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany, taking the main stage on Sunday as a fire alarm went off.
Scholz addressed the audience as the alarm sounded:
“So, we are discussing pressing issues — someone pressed the fire alarm. It’s not really supporting our debates, over here they are doing some protests about climate and things like that and think this will reprove our discussions. I think the best way to improve our discussions is just continuing with [unintelligible],” Scholz said. Credit: Daniel Hartmann via Storyful
Video Transcript
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[SIRENS WAILING]
[APPLAUSE]
OLAF SCHOLZ: So we are discussing pressing issues. Someone pressed the fire alarm.
[LAUGHTER]
But he's not really supporting our debates over here. They are doing some protests about climate and things like that. I think this will improve our discussions. And I think the best way to improve the discussions is just continuing without [INAUDIBLE].
[APPLAUSE, SIREN WAILING]
- --continue.
[SIRENS WAILING]
[APPLAUSE]
OLAF SCHOLZ: So we are discussing pressing issues. Someone pressed the fire alarm.
[LAUGHTER]
But he's not really supporting our debates over here. They are doing some protests about climate and things like that. I think this would improve our discussions. And I think the best way to improve the discussions is just continuing without [INAUDIBLE].
[APPLAUSE]
