- summary
- Five activists who broke into an Elbit Systems facility in Ulm in November 2023 are on trial in Stuttgart, charged not only with property damage (about €1 million) but with membership of a criminal organisation, the prosecution treating Palestine Action Germany as such. They have been held in high-security pre-trial detention and could face years in prison; the defence calls the charges disproportionate and politically weaponised.
- country
- Germany
- date text
- 05/2026
- entities
- Stuttgart public prosecutor; courts
- entity type
- Prosecutor
- id
- 1199
- name
- Stuttgart public prosecutor; courts
- role
- actor
- The 'Ulm 5': Palestine Action Germany activists from the UK, Spain, Ireland and Germany
- entity type
- Individual — Activist; Movement
- id
- 1200
- name
- The 'Ulm 5': Palestine Action Germany activists from the UK, Spain, Ireland and Germany
- role
- target
- Stuttgart public prosecutor; courts
- sources
- tactics
- Mass Criminalization of Protest and Civic Mobilization
- label
- Mass Criminalization of Protest and Civic Mobilization
- code
- TC-39
- needs review
- false
- role
- primary
- Mass Criminalization of Protest and Civic Mobilization
- channels
- Criminal-organisation charges against a direct-action movement
- consequence category
- Operational Suppression
- created at
- 2026-09-25T12:58:56.258863+00:00
- date precision
- month
- escalation
- 4
- harm track
- Track 3 — Operational Suppression
- id
- DEU-003
- institutional consequence
- Criminal prosecution; Prolonged pre-trial detention; Movement labelled criminal organisation
- notes
- Coded Sep 25 2026 from Civic Space Watch (CIVICUS rating: obstructed). Date = trial testimonies (May 2026). The action involved property damage; coded for the criminal-organisation framing and detention conditions, not the damage charge.
- occurred on
- 2026-05-01
- trigger type
- TR-02: Civic Mobilization
- updated at
- 2026-09-25T12:58:56.258863+00:00
- version
- 1
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