Police went too hard against climate activists according to court

The Berlin Administrative Court has condemned the police use of pain attacks against a climate activist as disproportionate. The Anti-Repression Association RAZ sees this as a precedent.

The Berlin Administrative Court was right about a climate chaoten who had sued the police because officials had applied the "pain grip".

The policeman still warned him that he could not swallow without pain for days, then the access followed. A court ruled now: The action of two officials against a member of the last generation in Berlin was illegal.

The blockades of the last generation have been regularly disbanded by the police - and that again and again with rabid means. One of these cases ends up in court. Now a verdict is issued in favour of the protester concerned.

In 2023, Berlin police had applied a pain attack to a climate activist. From the point of view of the administrative court, the use of officials was disproportionate.

They protest, block and smear – everything according to your own understanding for the survival of our planet. Many feel their daily life disturbed or even threatened by it and want to ignore, denounce or imprison them for it. Others see in them courageous activists for the preservation of the Earth. Of course, the talk is about climate activists like those of the last generation. Regardless of their own attitude, one should ask oneself the ques…