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Alarm as German climate activists charged with ‘forming a criminal organisation’
The Guardian ^ | 23rd May 2024 | Damien Gayle

Posted on 05/23/2024 7:55:29 AM PDT by Cronos

Five members of Letzte Generation, Germany’s equivalent to Just Stop Oil, have been charged with “forming a criminal organisation”, a move civil rights campaigners say could in effect criminalise future support for the climate campaign.

Mirjam Herrmann, 27, Henning Jeschke, 22, Edmund Schulz, 60, Lukas Popp, 25, and Jakob Beyer, 30, were charged under section 129 of the German criminal code. It is believed to be the first time the law has been applied to a non-violent protest group.

According to prosecutors in the state of Brandenburg, the charges relate to more than a dozen “attacks” against oil refineries, the Berlin-Brandenburg airport and the Museum Barberini ... The charges, brought by the public prosecutor’s office in the town of Neuruppin, come after a two-year investigation into the activities of Letzte Generation, involving dawn raids on supporters’ homes, wiretaps on their phones and even seizing the organisation’s website.

According to Amnesty International Germany, a guilty verdict for even one of the defendants could turn Letzte Generation into a proscribed organisation by criminalising any activity that promotes it or its purposes, whether financially, logistically, politically, legally or in the media.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: climatechange; crime; criminals; ecoterrorism; germany; globalwarming; hoax; lastgeneration; letztegeneration; terrorism

1 posted on 05/23/2024 7:55:29 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

I’m guessing that people are getting fed up with vandalism and blocking roads


2 posted on 05/23/2024 7:57:08 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: Cronos

breaking the law makes one criminals... that’s the law of the nature of crime


3 posted on 05/23/2024 8:01:44 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Cronos
"...the first time the law has been applied to a non-violent protest group"

BUT, the "charges relate to more than a dozen 'attacks' against oil refineries, the Berlin-Brandenburg airport and the Museum Barberini"

That reminds me of the US MSM in 2020 saying there were "mostly peaceful protests" as our cities were burning down.

4 posted on 05/23/2024 8:04:05 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Cronos

Bader Meinhof is getting the band back together.


5 posted on 05/23/2024 8:04:53 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Cronos

” It is believed to be the first time the law has been applied to a non-violent protest group.”

I thought words were violence?


6 posted on 05/23/2024 8:13:10 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: PGR88

That name is a blast from the past.


7 posted on 05/23/2024 8:14:07 AM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: SauronOfMordor

[say could in effect criminalise future support for the climate campaign.]

Excellent. Al Gore’s money-making scheme hardest hit.


8 posted on 05/23/2024 8:25:19 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Cronos

All the climate changers are criminal for not telling the truth. They never mention all of the massive volcanoes that have erupted since Jan 15 2022 pumping over 100 billion tons of ash and vapors into the upper atmosphere. This volcanic trash is effecting our wx now and for years to come. When Yellowstone erupts we will have our 3 days of darkness possible devastation of America. No one can prepare for the event to happen.


9 posted on 05/23/2024 8:29:35 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Thanks Cronos.

10 posted on 05/24/2024 7:59:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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