Around summer of 2020....the German court system finally came to say that autobahn construction on A49 (here in Hessen, north part of the state)....could continue (had been in the court for almost 20 years).
So, environmentalists got involved when construction started on 1 October 2020. Everyday, they showed up.....everyday....the police had to react.
HR reported this today.
So they added up the police cost to this project (1 October to 8 December). With the vehicle action, the overtime, and miscellaneous cost....it's around 19-million Euro (figure around $23-million dollars).
Where will the money come from? Well...HR says that the state (Hessen) Interior Ministry will cover this. Probably from some emergency pot of money, and later....various state agencies probably will cover portions.
Me personally? I would have gone to each guy/gal arrested or detained and just said your action has a cost factor of 1,200 Euro (for each arrest). The sad thing is that the 19-million Euro had all kinds of potential uses, and running an arrest 'camp' was the least productive of those ideas.
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