The political department of Germany’s public prosecutor’s office conducted a search in seven states on Dec. 13 at locations that have ties with the climate activist group “Last Generation.”
The group is being investigated because of “the initial suspicion of forming or supporting a criminal organization, disruption of public services, trespassing, and coercion,” senior public prosecutor Cyrill Klement told Der Spiegel, while adding that a “low, double-digit number of people” would be accused. There have been no arrests reported.
Last Generation members being investigated over their actions against the PCK Schwedt oil refinery during protests between April and May 2022.
During the time, certain members of the organization closed emergency valves on a crude pipeline that runs from Schwedt to Rostock. The plant provides 90 percent of Berlin’s fuel. The activists justified their actions on Twitter using the slogan “End the fossil madness,” according to Der Spiegel….