Overview
- Greenpeace activists overlaid large '100 km/h' stickers on recommended‑speed signs at about 25–26 Autobahn border crossings in the early hours of Monday, June 8, to symbolically impose a 100 km/h limit.
- Crews and police removed many stickers the same day and reported no material damage after first checks, but state traffic police are investigating potential traffic‑law offences or criminal damage.
- Legally the alteration of official traffic signs can amount to Sachbeschädigung and states (Landespolizei) are responsible for any prosecution rather than the federal police.
- The action is timed to increase momentum for a Greens bill to introduce a binding Autobahn limit that will be discussed in the Bundestag on 22 June and it sharpens the split with CDU ministers who oppose a general cap.
- Greenpeace frames the measure as a fast, low‑cost way to save fuel, cut emissions and improve safety while critics point to the government’s temporary 'tankrabatt' and economic research showing the rebate largely benefits fuel sellers and high‑mileage drivers.