Families say ‘Ulm 5’ have been detained under extreme prison conditions since arrest last September

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46530874

April 27, 2026

Five pro-Palestinian activists have appeared in court over an attack on an Israeli arms company in Germany, charged with causing approximately €1m of damage.

Prosecutors say the defendants, aged 25 to 40, trespassed and yelled pro-Palestinian statements as they destroyed office equipment, sensitive measuring devices and smashed windows at a site linked to Elbit Systems in the southern city of Ulm.

The activists published videos online in which they claimed responsibility for the attack, which they said was aimed at drawing attention to Germany’s support for Israel and its military actions in Gaza.

  • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    If the ICJ finds Israel guilty of genocide, then the entire German economic and legal system that supports Elbit will have been found to be in breach of the Genocide convention and these five people will be found to be acting in accordance with the obligation to prevent Genocide.

    That’s where we’re at.

      • GuyIncognito@lemmy.caEnglish
        42·
        2 days ago

        I’m gonna blow your mind on this one, but it’s actually really obvious if you think about it.

        Nazi Germany’s original plan was to deport the Jews. One plan they had was to move them all to Madagascar, but they ended up going with a more piecemeal method of just deporting them to neighbouring countries, or on ships. The mass extermination only started in earnest when they conquered all these new territories and suddenly all these people they deported were back in their territory, plus a whole bunch of other Jews.

        Fast forward to the present, and the original plan, to deport all Jews from Germany, is basically successful. There are very few Jews in Germany today. To a German politician, the proper place for Jews is Israel.

        Additionally, if former German Jews (i.e. people or the descendents of who fled, or of Holocaust victims) were to return to Germany, it would open up some very thorny legal questions. Between 5 and 8 billion reichsmarks of money and property was stolen from Jews in the third reich. If the rightful owners were to return, this property would have to be returned. It’s much easier for the German state to simply pay reparations directly to israel than to pay it to the victims of the holocaust, let alone actually return the property.

        So, the Nazis did the dirty work, got rid of the people whose rightful place German politicians will still tell you is outside of Germany, and acquired a lot of capital, and now the good modern democratic german state gets to reap the benefits. All wrapped up in a tight little package.

        Finally, Israel is a tool of imperialism used to keep the middle east down and help with extraction of capital from the region, and also Mossad probably has videos of EU politicians doing pedophilia

        • Tolc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          2 days ago

          No. Its ideology, whole western world is jewish supremacist by structure.

      • Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        20 hours ago

        Because europe is “judeo-christian” and everyone outside of that is the enemy for them.