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“I don’t want to go to prison, this punishment scares me a lot,” says Daniel Eckert (22). He was sentenced to five months in prison on Monday. His crime: The member of the climate protest group “Last Generation” along with two other activists again blocked traffic a few hours after they had already been sentenced to prison.
“You did not take the first verdict as an opportunity to question your conduct,” the judge said when the verdict was handed down. “You said that nothing else impresses you,” she told the suspect.
The young climate glue is combative in an interview with T-online. Being locked up is “not a good feeling”. The “greater limitation of freedom” is “climate change”. That’s why he doesn’t even think about giving up the protest. He described the fact that some people welcomed the harsh verdict as “crassy”.
Waiting in front of the courthouse
He cannot understand the reactions and the judgments. “We caused a traffic jam of half an hour. And we should be behind bars for that?” he wonders. “Those who destroy our future don’t have to go behind bars,” he says. Despite the prospect of going to prison, he “still has hope that we can make a change”.
The last generation had called for a vigil in court on Monday. The SWR reported that about 30 people followed the call. (nad)
Source: Blick
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