Demonstrations - Activists convicted of coercion after abseiling action
The Ebersberg District Court has sentenced four environmental activists for coercion following an abseiling action from a highway bridge during the IAA motor show more than two years ago. On Wednesday, three defendants were fined between 675 and 975 euros (two 45-day sentences and one 65-day sentence of 15 euros each). For one woman, who was an adolescent at the time of the crime, the court applied juvenile criminal law and imposed a work requirement of 40 hours.
The trial for the abseiling action over the 94 freeway began in mid-December. As the highway had to be closed for a long time, the Munich II public prosecutor's office accused the defendants, who were 21 to 29 years old at the start of the trial, of 192 counts of coercion.
Two of the accused had abseiled down from the bridge near Poing. They attached a large banner that read, among other things, "Public transport instead of highway expansion".
According to the court, two of the defendants remained on the bridge to secure the other two and film what was happening. The police closed the highway so that it was not possible to drive on towards Munich for some time. According to the court, the traffic jam was at least 800 meters long.
There had already been a date for the main hearing on May 3. However, this had to be suspended for procedural reasons, according to the local court.
In March, the Fürstenfeldbruck district court had already sentenced two other environmental activists for coercion who had also abseiled down from a highway bridge during the IAA motor show. The two were fined between 600 and 900 euros, as was a supporter.
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Source: www.stern.de
