IIn Hirschaid, Bavaria, protesters disrupted a Green Party event. Their participants were ultimately escorted to their cars in small groups by police officers, as the police in Bayreuth announced on Thursday evening. The party's district association held its annual general meeting in Hirschaid on Wednesday evening. According to information, 300 people with more than 60 tractors and cars gathered in a side street.

This meeting was not registered, the police said. The protesters “loudly expressed their displeasure” and disrupted the Green event. So they shined spotlights into the meeting room and filmed it. The windows were also knocked on and, according to police, the Greens event was disrupted by a siren.

The police therefore intervened to de-escalate and stop the disruptive actions. Green district chairman Tim-Luca Rosenheimer told the Zeit Online portal that the participants were insulted and harassed when they left the party event under police protection.

The Bamberg police announced that they were checking the protest for violations of assembly law or criminal law. Apparently there were not only farmers among the participants. It is still unclear who exactly was there or how they were politically assigned.

Shortly after the first protest, some of the participants blocked access to the central warehouse of a hypermarket chain in a nearby town, it said. There were therefore twelve reports of coercion.

Due to violent protests, the Greens had to cancel their political Ash Wednesday event in Biberach, Baden-Württemberg last week for security reasons.