Greenpeace apologizes, local police slam Euro 2020 protestor

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By CIARÁN FAHEY

MUNICH (AP) — Greenpeace has apologized and Munich police are investigating after a protestor parachuted into the stadium and injured two people before Germany’s game against France at the European Championship.

The protestor used a powered paraglider with a motor attached to his back but lost control and hit overhead camera wires attached to the stadium roof, careening over spectators’ heads before he landed on the field ahead of Tuesday’s game. Debris fell on the field and main grandstand, narrowly missing France coach Didier Deschamps.

Greenpeace spokesperson Benjamin Stephan apologized for the botched protest and the injuries caused.

“That was never our intention,” Stephan said. “The paraglider was to fly over the stadium and drop a latex ball with a message of protest onto the field.”



A Greenpeace paraglider lands on the pitch before the Euro 2020 soccer championship group F match between France and Germany at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, June 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, Pool)


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/greenpeace-bundesliga-europe-euro-2020-soccer-1bbd9b217acbbd976c725dce60befbcb

[brooklynite]

1. Did this stunt convince Government officials to change their energy policies?

Did this stunt convince viewers to lobby Government officials to change their energy policies?

Did this stunt convince FIFA/UEFA not to accept corporate sponsorship from energy/automotive companies?

(answer: no)

[NNadir]

2. Greenpeace is an organization of clowns.

Far more important that the damage their stunt may have done in this case, is the damage they've done by being completely ignorant of science.

There is apparently, very few members of this organization who have opened a science book.

The fact that media considers this organization to be an "environmental" organization is a big part of the reason we are entering into an environmental catastrophe which is way beyond anything we have ever seen.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Ok, a botched stunt, but at least it was no "gender reveal" grandstanding. nt

[OneCrazyDiamond]

4. Green Peace lost me

when they messed up Nazca Lines. Just wrong wrong wrong.