Alarm as German climate activists charged with ‘forming a criminal organisation’

Action against Letzte Generation could have immense chilling effect' on climate protest, campaigners say

Five members of Letzte Generation, Germany's equivalent to Just Stop Oil, have been charged with forming a criminal organisation", a move civil rights campaigners say could in effect criminalise future support for the climate campaign.

Mirjam Herrmann, 27, Henning Jeschke, 22, Edmund Schulz, 60, Lukas Popp, 25, and Jakob Beyer, 30, were charged under section 129 of the German criminal code. It is believed to be the first time the law has been applied to a non-violent protest group.