Police search numerous homes belonging to members of the environmental group Ultima Generación during a national raid
The young activists of the radical environmental group Última Generación, champions of actions such as blockades of airports and highways with their hands stuck to the asphalt or attacks with liquids on well-known works of art in major museums in half of Europe, have been declared members of a criminal organization in Germany .
Based on this accusation, the Neuruppin prosecutor’s office has issued a search warrant for the homes of several prominent members of the organization that fights aggressively against climate change with aggressive protests.
The group itself announced via Twitter that police raided eleven homes across the country on Tuesday and that the officers seized electronic devices such as laptops or external memories, posters and written material.
A spokesman for Neuruppin’s prosecutor’s office confirmed the data and announced that those affected are accused of being part of or supporting a criminal organization. The prosecutors’ investigation refers to an action at the Schwedt refinery, in northeastern Germany, that the activists raided and shut down several pipelines without making any arrests.
Since then, the activities of the “Last Generation” have multiplied in Germany, where in recent weeks they have, among other things, suspended air traffic at Berlin and Munich airports for several hours after encroaching on their runways and putting their hands on the tarmac . with fast glue.
Environmental activists called the searches attempted harassment. “The investigations opened against a criminal organization open all doors for the authorities to keep an eye on us and this possibility is precisely their ultimate goal,” said those involved, recalling that in cases like this it is rare that there is a formal accusation and even more rarely, even if there is eventually a conviction on those charges.
“But if a court decides to lock up peaceful people like us, we know how to deal with the consequences. We defend what we do with our names and faces,” warned the young people, who accused the authorities of silencing their demands and of violating the state’s “constitution for not protecting the climate” and not recognizing that ” we are in a climate crisis. An unprecedented crisis, which threatens everything, including our lives.
However, the charges against the activists are much more. Cyrill Clement, the prosecutor responsible for the case, pointed out that they are being investigated on “the principle of suspicion of forming or supporting a criminal organization, alteration of the operation of public services, trespassing and coercion”. He added that “a low number of double-digit people” are being charged, whose identities he would not reveal, while emphasizing that no one has been arrested in this operation so far.
Clemens also stressed that his investigation focuses on possible crimes committed between April and May this year in the state of Mecklenburg-Antepommern and not on airport blockades or attacks on works of art.
Source: La Verdad
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