Thousands of protesters, many on bicycles, gathered in the southern German city of Frankfurt Saturday to protest outside the city's motor show, part of a new wave of environmental activism.
Diesel-fuelled cars have remained at low levels of popularity in Germany following Volkswagen's massive"dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal of 2015. "Such tank-like cars do not belong in cities," tweeted Stephan von Dassel, a Greens politician and mayor of Berlin's Mitte district, where the fatal accident happened.
"The automotive industry has still not understood the climate crisis," Greenpeace activist Benjamin Stephan told AFP.
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