Having already cornered Brazil’s ex-president Bolsonaro with a lawsuit, AllRise activist Johannes Wesemann is now taking legal action against the soil destruction in Austria.
“Each day in Austria, 11.5 hectares of land are sealed forever – that is the equivalent of 16 football pitches and more than four times the 2.5 hectare target set in the government programme. This has to come to an end now”, demands the eco-activist Wesemann and his organization AllRise.
To help his urgent demand to a breakthrough, the entrepreneur has now started crowdfunding. This is to fund a lawsuit against the republic over its high land consumption. He is assisted by the experienced Viennese lawyer Wolfram Proksch.
The duo first made headlines in this legal field when they filed charges against then-Brazilian President Bolsonaro and members of the government of the South American country at the International Criminal Court in The Hague in the fall of 2021 for “direct and indirect aid to the destruction of the rainforest”. ”. The case has since been heard by the world’s highest courts. A ruling is pending.
In Austria, the planned trial on state liability will be submitted to the Constitutional Court at the end of April. According to Proksch, these are claims for damages for flagrant misconduct by the legislator. The aim is to force politicians to actively restrict land use.
Source: Krone
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