Robert Habeck, Germany's vice chancellor and economy minister, finally made it to the German mainland early Friday, hours after angry farmers prevented him from exiting a passenger ferry travelling from a North Sea island. "Mr Habeck arrived home safely," said a police spokesman in the northern city of Flensburg. Habeck took a later ferry from Hallig Hooge island to the mainland and arrived home at around 2:30 am (0130 GMT). He was not met with protesters upon the ferry's docking, police said. O
Germany's Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck expressed concern about the mood in the country following the blockade of the ferry he was on by an angry crowd of farmers. "What worries me, indeed worries me, is that the mood in the country is heating up so much," he said on Friday. Habeck, who is also Germany's economy minister, finally made it to the German mainland early Friday, hours after the farmers prevented him from exiting a passenger ferry travelling from the North Sea island of Hallig Hooge.
The public prosecutor in the German city of Flensburg has opened an investigation on suspicion of coercion following the blockade by a mob of angry farmers of a ferry with Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck on board. The office is also investigating whether other offences such as resisting law enforcement officers and breach of the peace have been committed, senior public prosecutor Bernd Winterfeldt told dpa on Friday. An unknown person is currently being investigated, he added. Demonstrators had pr