After raid on climate glue: activists from "Last Generation" will "continue" 

Created: 12/14/2022, 5:10 am

By: Andreas Schmid, Fabian Müller

Police raided eleven “Last Generation” activists on Tuesday.

The accusation: formation of a "criminal organization".

• Large-scale raid

  against

  climate activists

  : spokeswoman reports of "scary" search

• Nationwide

  raid

  against

  "Last Generation"

  : climate group a criminal organization?

• Sabotage

  of

  pipelines

  in Brandenburg: "Last generation" wanted to interrupt the flow of oil in the refinery

• This

  news ticker on the crackdown on "Last Generation" activists

  is constantly updated.

Update from December 13, 7:41 p.m .:

After the raid on some climate activists, dozens of people in Berlin showed solidarity with the members of the “Last Generation” protest group.

A demonstration against police violence that had been registered at Kottbuser Tor on Tuesday evening was used for this without further ado.

According to the news agency, around 100 demonstrators from the left-wing autonomous scene, dressed in black and some masked, took part.

They carried a large banner that read, "Police everywhere.

Justice nowhere".

According to the dpa, around 50 people from the camp of the climate demonstrators took part, many wearing orange vests.

A spokesman for the climate protesters thanked them for organizing the demonstration.

At the same time he called for non-violence.

Numerous police officers were on site.

According to the police, the registered demonstration referred to December 13, when left-wing groups drew attention to police violence under the code 1312 ACAB (“All cops are bastards”, German: All police officers are bastards).

Climatic Adhesive Raid: 'Last Generation' Activists 'Will Carry On'

Update from December 13, 5:36 p.m .:

Jakob Beyer, one of the activists of the “Last Generation” group, has emphasized to the dpa that the actions should be continued despite the house searches: “We will continue because what is at stake is so important,” said Beyer after the raids on the climate activists.

And further: "If we don't do something about the climate crisis now, more than three billion people will live in zones where they can no longer farm."

Raid against climate activists: Merz welcomes action against "Last Generation"

Update from December 13, 4:38 p.m .:

Union faction leader Friedrich Merz welcomed the raid on activists of the “last generation”.

The group's actions had "nothing to do with climate protection anymore," said the CDU leader.

It is about dangerous interventions in road and air traffic, coercion, trespassing "and criminal offenses against life and limb of the population".

Merz added: “The rule of law has to show its teeth here.

He does.

I expressly welcome that.”

Raid on "Last Generation": Activists criticize "attempt at intimidation"

Update from December 13, 3:45 p.m .:

The group “Last Generation” speaks of an “attempt at intimidation” in today’s raids that will not stop them.

"We stand behind what we do with face and name - if there is a desire for information, there is no need for a house search."

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Brandenburg's Justice Minister Susanne Hoffmann (CDU), on the other hand, explained: "A group that is jointly geared towards committing planned crimes fulfills the criteria of a criminal association, even if the crimes are intended to serve a supposedly higher goal."

Activists of the "Last Generation" climate protection initiative stick their hands on the street at Stachus.

© Matthias Balk/dpa

Update from December 13, 2:30 p.m

.: According to information from the dpa news agency, the police and public prosecutors took action in six federal states today against climate protection demonstrators from the “Last Generation” group.

According to initial information, the investigators searched apartments in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony.

Apart from Leipzig, no specific location has been named so far.

There should also have been a search in Mannheim and Cottbus, according to investigators.

Major raid on climate activists: spokeswoman for the "Last Generation" reports on "scary" searches

Update from December 13, 1:20 p.m

.: During the raids on members of the “Last Generation”, the house of spokeswoman Carla Hinrichs was also searched.

The activists confirmed this in an interview with our editorial team.

“This morning my home was searched.

I wasn't home, but my parents told me how my whole room was searched."

Hinrichs finds the house search "of course scary, but frankly, primarily absurd".

The “actual danger” is “preferably swept under the table,” says the activist: “That we are in a climate crisis.

An unprecedented crisis, threatening everything, endangering all of our lives".

Therefore, one must ask oneself what is criminal, says Hinrichs.

“It means resisting for our survival.

I will not be intimidated."

Carla Hinrichs, spokeswoman for the "Last Generation".

© Marlene Charlotte Limburg

Update from December 13, 12:40 p.m .

: The climate activist Luisa Neubauer (Fridays for Future) criticizes the nationwide raids on members of the “last generation”.

On Twitter, the 26-year-old described the house searches as "limitlessly disproportionate and absurd action" and said: "You find out how much climate policy in this country is upside down when the fight against climate protectionists is pushed forward so much more vigorously than the fight against the climate crisis.

It's exposing.”

Nationwide raid against "Last Generation": climate grouping a criminal organization?

First report from December 13, 11:45 a.m

.: Munich – On Tuesday morning there were several searches of members of the “Last Generation” group.

Several activists reported this on social media.

"My home was searched this morning," group spokeswoman Carla Hinrichs wrote on Twitter.

Accordingly, she and other members of the "last generation" are accused of having formed a criminal organization.

The public prosecutor's office in Berlin had recently determined that the "Last Generation" was not a criminal organization.

According to "Last Generation", a total of 11 people in the group were visited by the police.

According to the organization, laptops, cell phones and posters were confiscated.

The members obviously do not want to be intimidated.

"Do you seriously think that we're going to stop now," Hinrichs wrote.

Sabotage of pipelines in Brandenburg: "Last generation" wanted to interrupt the flow of oil in the refinery

The Neuruppin public prosecutor's office is leading the investigation.

According to prosecutor Cyrill Klement, the authorities are primarily referring to sabotage actions by the "last generation" on a pipeline in Schwedt (like Neuruppin in Brandenburg).

There, the activists had tried several times since the spring to interrupt the flow of oil.

According to the public prosecutor's office, among other things, sliders have been closed.

There were no arrests at the time.

It will be determined because of the allegation of disruption of public services.

Klement explained that the suspicion of forming a criminal organization could arise if the accused repeatedly arranged to commit crimes.

With 1,200 jobs, PCK Schwedt is the most important refinery for supplying East German petrol stations with fuel.

Because of the planned oil embargo against Russia from next year, the federal and state governments have been trying for months to find alternative supply routes for the refinery.

Plants for processing crude oil are located on the premises of PCK-Raffinerie GmbH.

© Patrick Pleul/dpa/archive image

Because activists are in prison: the Bavarian police are apparently breaking open doors

The raids apparently relate to several cities across Germany.

As reported by

, the authorities did not find some activists in Bavaria because they are currently in preventive custody in Munich.

That's why the police are said to have broken down the doors, as the "Last Generation" itself writes on Twitter.

Interview with "Last Generation": That's what the group demands

The last generation is calling for a climate change.

In an interview with our editorial team, spokeswoman Hinrichs said at the beginning of December: "The 9-euro ticket must be continued.

In addition, the state must introduce a speed limit of 100 km/h on motorways.” If this is implemented, the “Last Generation” will end their protest: “Then we will leave the street and interrupt our protest.

Our demands would be fulfilled.

If the government doesn't get the state of emergency under control, we'll go back to the streets."