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To: The Irish Government
Support Ireland’s monitoring of Germany’s “show trial” against the Ulm 5!
Send legal observers to monitor the Ulm5 Trial
Why is this important?
Who’s really on trial here: The Ulm 5 - or German justice?
Family and loved ones of the Ulm 5 ask you to bring attention to this trial.
Please sign the petition!
If you care about genocide, this is something to pay attention to.
Five young people - including Irish citizen, Daniel Tatlow-Devally,- are on trial in Stuttgart, Germany for aiming to prevent genocide.
They are now known as the ‘Ulm 5’.
Aiming to uphold international law, they caused damage to an Elbit Systems Germany site (Elbit Systems is responsible for over 80% of arms in the genocide in Gaza). Germany is second only to the United States in providing arms to Israel.
The five had no previous convictions and waited for their arrest without resistance. Throughout pretrial detention, the defendants have been peaceful and pose no risk to any persons.
Four of the five are citizens of Germany’s EU and Council of Europe (CoE) partners - EU and CoE membership is defined by upholding all citizens’ fundamental rights. The promise of European human rights is meaningless if governments do not hold each other to account when breaches and injustices take place.
The Ulm 5’s defence counsel say their constitutional and human rights are being breached by the court. Every trial day the Ulm5 are brought in handcuffed behind two meter high bullet proof glass separating them from their lawyers.This paints a picture of dangerous criminals, contradicting their charges and, furthermore, their EU right to presumption of innocence, while Germany continues to provide material support to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Germany’s trusted EU/CoE partners must not fear holding them accountable where CoE/EU rights are being violated particularly when one of their own citizens is being affected.
Monitoring this trial by government representatives is legally permitted.
Constitutional and human rights to a fair trial are being breached by the court such as:
- The court did not allow the defence to speak at all on the first day of the trial
- The judge stated that anything the defence tried to say would vanish into thin air as she determines the version of record
- The defendants are allowed only limited contact with their lawyers
- The court had the defendants marched into the courtroom in front of the lay judges, by five prison officers, in handcuffs, and in a glass cage, against ECtHR rulings and the lawyers’ protests
- The court has made extremely prejudicial statements to the press about the Ulm 5, comparing them to murderers, terrorists, violent coup supporters and violent gangs
- The court chose to hold the trial in a high-security venue of the Higher Regional Court and has not sought normal courtrooms in their own Regional Court for this trial
- The court has refused the defenses’ motion to bring in an independent court stenographer. Currently, the Judge is the only record keeper.
- The court has also refused to hear multiple motions calling for the presiding Judge to be recused
What we are requesting:
- For the Irish Government to send legal observers to ensure a just trial.The Minister for Foreign Affairs has already promised fair oversight of this trial. This can only be achieved through governmental observation.