Eddy on “The Last Generation”: Portraying Harald Leach in Conversation with the Experimental Participants

The visit was significant for him: Harald Lich exchanged thoughts with other participants at a rally of the “last generation” in Munich.

MUNICH – “Now you have to have backup. After this mistake, it can’t be right,” complains Harald Lesch (62), because his cell phone camera hasn’t caught him yet. The famous astrophysicist and science journalist took part in a rally organized by “The Last Generation” in Munich on Thursday (May 25) evening. The subject of the demonstration and the origin of Leach’s anger: the treatment climate activists have recently received from the police and the judiciary.

Members raided and blocked website: Why does he see “crossing the red line”

Nationwide, investigators searched the homes of “last generation” people earlier in the week, Munich and Augsburg also affected. The official hook was “the accusation of forming or supporting a criminal organization”. During the raid, the “Last Generation” website was blocked. The information text that later appeared there provided plenty of material for discussion: “The Bavarian State Criminal Police Office confiscated the website of the “last generation” on behalf of the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office – the Bavarian Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism (ZET). The last generation is a criminal organization according to Article 129 of the Criminal Code! (Warning: donations to the generation The latter thus constitutes a punishable act of supporting a criminal organization!).

Harald Lich refers to this when he says: “A red line has been crossed for me. You don’t always have to approve of your actions. But it is unacceptable to be treated like criminals.” One of the participants in the demonstration recorded how the TV physicist discussed recent events in the heart of Munich with a young man – and shared the result with him on Twitter. Leach received much praise there for his candid statements. “They’re in there too, old white men. One user commented on Lesch’s two likes.

The wording chosen by the judiciary to eliminate the aforementioned site caused an uproar. “In Germany, whether or not someone is a criminal is determined by an independent court.” Comments like this spread like wildfire on Twitter. Meanwhile, the authorities are choosing a more or less defensive tactic.

Home reference now deleted: speaker calls it ‘misunderstood’

On the other side buzzfeed.de From IPPEN.MEDIA, a spokesman for the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office stated that There is only initial suspicion that the “last generation” could be a criminal organization. This does not reflect the warning on the site. ““Due to this misunderstanding, the reference has since been deleted,” the spokesperson said.

“With the actions you have taken, there is the status of the criminal law of coercion,” Lesch explains in Munich in the direction of the activists. But this in no way justified any raids. You are not mafia. About two hours later, the participants reached the Odeonsplatz. The march was accompanied by a large police force. (Leave)

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