Dhe penal code sanctions the formation of a criminal organization for good reasons with a separate criminal offense. Anyone who joins together to commit criminal offenses usually affects the feeling of security of the citizens more than individual perpetrators.
The “Last Generation” offers a variety of indications that they have now evolved into such a group. The climate activists are tightly organized and able to control their actions centrally. Their property damage, coercion and trespassing are not side effects of peaceful participation in meetings, but intended from the outset in order to gain as much attention as possible.
Convincing response from the rule of law
So that the public does not lose interest, the activists are constantly turning the spiral of escalation. Criminal offenses have become more and more a characteristic of the group. The house searches ordered by the Neuruppin public prosecutor’s office on Tuesday are a convincing response from the rule of law, even if the main focus is initially on the protest actions against the oil refinery in Schwedt.
The activists themselves can probably no longer imagine a “last generation” that will abide by the law. They reacted accordingly to the house searches on Tuesday. In its statement, the group did not put much effort into refuting the allegations of forming a criminal organization. Instead, she denounced the house searches as excessive.
However, the activists did not provide any plausible arguments to show that the investigators’ actions were actually disproportionate. Your sweeping assertion that the state wants to “silence you” is unrealistic. No state actor prohibits the “last generation” from participating in the climate debate. But anyone who thinks they can only be persuaded by criminal offenses is taking themselves out of the discourse.
