First adhesive activist from "Last Generation" convicted: court sees "coercion"
Created: 08/30/2022, 19:14
By: Christoph Gschossmann
Environmental activists from the group "Last Generation" have glued themselves to the road and a police officer is trying to loosen the glue.
(symbol photo) © Robert Michael/picture alliance/dpa
The first of the activists who caused traffic jams and a stir with sticking actions has been sentenced.
The court saw the facts of coercion fulfilled.
Berlin / Munich - They stick to the streets to take a lot of trouble for an important issue: climate activists from the group "Last Generation" have caused a lot of media attention and displeasure among road users.
Now the first of them has been sentenced: In the first nationwide trial in connection with blockade actions, the Berlin-Tiergarten district court in the German capital has sentenced a 20-year-old climate activist to 60 hours of leisure work.
The court found Nils R. guilty of coercion on Tuesday for his participation in a road blockade in the capital.
On June 29, R. sat down with other activists from the group on a driveway to Autobahn 100 and stuck it there.
This is "legally to be assessed as a coercion," said the presiding judge Günter Räcke.
"I'm sorry to bother you, but we have to disturb you.
And we won't stop until we force changes," Nils R.
said at the beginning of the negotiation, according to
Bild .
And: "I don't know what else to do to draw the necessary attention to the topic."
Resistance to state authority?
Judge says no
Others should not be used as a means of exerting political pressure.
R. was also charged with resisting law enforcement officials.
However, Räcke did not see this allegation as fulfilled because R. did not use any violence against the police officers who broke his hands off the street with oil.
The convict is only 20 years old.
The conviction took place - as suggested by the youth welfare service - according to youth criminal law.
Among other things, Räcke justified this by saying that R. had only recently left his parents' house.
The activist moved to Leipzig last year to study philosophy there.
Prosecutors had asked for a fine
The public prosecutor's office should only be partially satisfied with the verdict.
The court's verdict fell short of the prosecutor's request, which had requested that the activist be tried as an adult and that a fine of 1,500 euros be imposed.
R's defense attorney, on the other hand, pleaded for an acquittal or, in the case of a conviction, for the application of juvenile criminal law.
According to a spokeswoman, the Berlin courts have already issued 66 penalty orders for road blockers.
Objections have already been filed against 24 of them, so that negotiations will take place.
The first in the capital took place on Tuesday.
R. had also lodged an objection to his penalty order.
According to the Last Generation group, it was also the first nationwide process after the blockade actions.
The group has announced further actions.
(cg with material from AFP)
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