Members of the group have repeatedly blocked roads across Germany in an effort to pressure the government to take more drastic action against climate change. “They make us afraid, but we must not be frozen by fear,” Aimee van Baalen told reporters in Berlin. The investigation was launched following numerous criminal complaints from the public over the past year, prosecutors said. That investigation is also considering suspicions that Last Generation activists formed a criminal organization, a label that some conservative-leaning regional officials have backed. Similar nonviolent climate protests elsewhere in Europe have also met with crackdowns recently.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 24, 2023 10:45 UTC