Robert Habeck News: Protests against Habeck - Public prosecutor's office continues investigation

Robert Habeck News: Protests against Habeck - Public prosecutor's office continues investigation Article by kns/roj/news.de • 1 hour • 2 minutes reading time More than a year after the controversial protest action by farmers against Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) in Schleswig-Holstein, the Flensburg public prosecutor's office wants to examine the matter again. "I see at least an attempted coercion," said senior public prosecutor Stephanie Gropp. The number of possible suspects is unclear. The investigation is now about the question of whether those involved in the action are guilty of crimes to the detriment of passengers on the ferry that arrived on the mainland from Hallig Hooge in Schlüttsiel (North Frisia district) on January 4, said Gropp. The public prosecutor's office has corrected its legal assessment of the events. Gropp said that insults at the pier were difficult to attribute because of the darkness. What really happened at the pier? In January, the public prosecutor's office announced that it was only investigating one suspect. According to the information provided at the time, this accused is suspected of resisting law enforcement officers. The man is said to have broken through a police cordon during the protest on the ramp to the ferry dock there. The public prosecutor's office also stated in January that no participants in the demonstration and therefore no further suspects could be identified with regard to other possible criminal offenses such as coercion, threats and insults. Due to the complexity of the situation, the police forces deployed had relied on de-escalation and did not establish the personal details of the demonstrators. Habeck was returning from a private trip on January 4, 2024. For security reasons, the ship set off again and headed back to Hooge. Habeck was only able to go ashore in Schlüttsiel several hours later at night. The background to the protests by farmers was planned cuts in subsidies.