German public prosecutors have charged the “Last Generation” climate protection group with forming a criminal organisation under Section 129 of the Criminal Code. The charges are a massive attack on the freedoms of association, assembly and expression, fundamental rights without which there can be no democracy.

On 28 February, 2025, the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office filed charges at the Munich I Regional Court against five members of Last Generation. The document accuses the activists of forming a criminal organisation with the intention of committing crimes. The indictment is 149 pages long. Among the accused is the well-known climate activist Carla Hinrichs, the group’s former press spokeswoman. Also indicted is the founder of the Augsburg Climate Camp, Ingo Blechschmidt.

On 28 February, 2025, the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office filed charges at the Munich I Regional Court against five members of Last Generation. The document accuses the activists of forming a criminal organisation with the intention of committing crimes. The indictment is 149 pages long. Among the accused is the well-known climate activist Carla Hinrichs, the group’s former press spokeswoman. Also indicted is the founder of the Augsburg Climate Camp, Ingo Blechschmidt.

The main accusation used to justify prosecution as a “criminal organisation” is the classification of blockades of road traffic by gluing oneself to the road as “coercion.” This accusation alone is highly controversial. Lower courts have repeatedly rejected it.

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    2 days ago

    Section 129 of the Criminal Code is colloquially coined as the anti-Mafia paragraph…

    Guess against whom it is never actually used. Hint the answer starts with criminal and ends with organisations.