20260704 Prozessbeobachtung bei den Ulm5

Human Rights matter for All

A clear stance would be helpful here: Either the court is prosecuting a “normal” break-in involving vandalism at the premises of a weapons manufacturer — in which case the high-security courtroom and the isolation of the defendants would be unnecessary — or it is adjudicating on the defendants’ claim of emergency action to draw attention to the genocide Israel has been perpetrating in Gaza for years and Germany’s arms deliveries in support of it, which violate international law.

However, it is unacceptable for the chief prosecutor to dismiss such justifications as having never existed in the first place. Although the video footage of their action—filmed by the defendants themselves — and their explanation of their motives are shown during the trial, the court refers only to the acts of breaking and entering. Furthermore, the video (and the entire action) is assessed as evidence that the actions of the five were an expression of a criminal conspiracy and an anti-Semitic attitude.

The defendants’ motions to introduce evidence must be taken into account in reaching a verdict! The following are cited and are thus at least known to the court:

The report "What the wounds are telling us" from Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra, which won the 2026 Distinguished Reporting Award from the European Press Prize.

The United Nations report published on June 18, 2026, titled “The essence of childhood has been destroyed”: Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 7 October 2023.

In this proceeding, Germany’s blindness in the face of a crime against humanity is also on trial.

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