Five members of the Last Generation have been charged on suspicion of forming a criminal organization. The background is attacks against facilities at the PCK oil refinery in Schwedt, against the capital’s BER airport and the Potsdam Barberini Museum.
The Neuruppin public prosecutor’s office has charged five members of the climate protection group Last Generation on suspicion of forming a criminal organization. The authority announced this on Tuesday. It is about attacks against facilities at the PCK oil refinery in Schwedt in northeast Brandenburg, against the capital airport BER and the Barberini Museum in Potsdam in the period from April 2022 to May 2023. In addition to the accusation of forming a criminal organization, it is also about disrupting public Operations, coercion and damage to property.
The public prosecutor’s office said: “The accusation concerns the accused as members of a subgroup of the “Last Generation” who, in contrast to the entire group of the “Last Generation”, agreed to commit crimes of some importance and took part in them.” After disruptive actions by climate protection demonstrators, investigators carried out searches in several federal states against members of the group in December 2022.
Similarly, the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office has been investigating five climate protection activists from the group Letzte Generation for over a year on suspicion of being members of a criminal organization, and two others on suspicion of supporting them. The Flensburg Public Prosecutor’s Office is also conducting a similar investigation.