Police officers detached the hand of a climate activist from the asphalt in Berlin. Activists of the ,,Last Generation’ had stuck one hand on the pavement during rush hour to protest against the German government’s climate policy.
Legal scholar Frank Zimmermann on the criminal law assessment of the current climate protests. Police officers detached the hand of a climate activist from the asphalt in Berlin. Activists of the ,,Last Generation' had stuck one hand on the pavement during rush hour to protest against the German government's climate policy. © picture alliance/dpa - Jörg Carstensen Defaced artworks, blocked roads or the blocking of the capital's airport: calls for harsher punishments for the climate activists of the "Last Generation" are increasing among politicians, in public and in the media. In an interview with Kathrin Nolte , Frank Zimmermann from the Institute of Criminology, Department V, at the WWU explains how the protests are to be evaluated from a jurisprudential point of view and which penal provisions could take effect. How are the actions of the activists to be assessed from a criminal law perspective in general? It is difficult to make a general assessment of something in criminal law. One must always consider the individual case.
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