The Munich regional court in a final decision declared the extremist climate protection group Letzte Generation a criminal organization. One of their members had previously spoken of how human life is not worth as much as our planet.

On Thursday, a Munich Regional Court officially classified the „climate terrorist” organization called Letzte Generation [last generation] a criminal organization. The final decision is binding and leaves no room for appeal.

The ruling was reached, following numerous incidents of the radical activists blocking roads and motorways with their awareness campaigns, causing major disruptions and even hindering the work of ambulances.

The court has established that Letzte Generation fulfills the legal definition of a criminal organization as it is an existing established association with a stated purpose of committing criminal acts, even if that is not the primary aim.

Crimes such as coercion, obstruction of traffic and damage to property „represent a significant threat to public safety” the court explained, adding that disrupting and blocking airports and damaging oil pipelines fall in the category of serious crimes.

Furthermore, crimes can not be considered means of „democratic debate” but are, according to the court, „expressions of criminal energy”.

As V4NA often reports, radical groups of climate activists regularly organize extreme actions. Activists of the Letzte Generation poured mashed potatoes on a Monet painting, then glued their hands to the wall and started warning about humanity being in the midst of a climate catastrophe.

We make this #Monet the stage and the public the audience.

If it takes a painting – with #MashedPotatoes or #TomatoSoup thrown at it – to make society remember that the fossil fuel course is killing us all:

Then we’ll give you #MashedPotatoes on a painting! pic.twitter.com/HBeZL69QTZ

— Letzte Generation (@AufstandLastGen) October 23, 2022

But the group’s deeds have also led to tragedy.

In November, a cyclist was declared brain dead following a collision with a concrete mixer in Berlin. She could have been saved had emergency response vehicles not been hampered by climate change activists blocking the road.

A spokesperson for the Berlin fire brigade confirmed that emergency response vehicles had been delayed due to protests by climate change activists, who were blocking the A100 autobahn, causing massive jams.

After authorities announced that the woman involved in the accident was brain dead, Last Generation issued a statement deflecting responsibility and accusing of hate speech all those who blamed the climate group for the ambulance vehicle’s late arrival. They also stressed that they would continue their actions.

There are those who, despite the potentially serious risk these actions can pose, still defend radical movements. In the words of Christian Blaul, one of the best-known climate activists of the Letzte Generation, ambulances being delayed by their road blocks in reaching a patient in time is still a small sacrifice compared to the extent of the danger planet Earth is in.

„One thing I always prepare for mentally, at least subconsciously, is that someone will die in a traffic jam. But we have to take that risk,”

the climate activist stated in a documentary by Benedict Bartsch, then continued, „The question is, what is better? Not protest and accept the fossil deal, or try to do something that can transform society and slow down the climate catastrophe?”‘.

Blaul gained notoriety with an action causing a giant traffic jam in Stockholm, Sweden, after which the authorities locked him up for 16 days. He has been taken to court on several occasions.