Overview
- A 28-year-old was convicted of trespass and fined 60 day-fines at €35 each, totaling €2,100, with the verdict not yet final.
- The presiding judge said the action sought to put the other side under pressure in a way the state cannot accept.
- Prosecutors said he stayed in the former printworks from 14 to 19 December 2023 and ignored police orders, and a special operations unit removed the group from the roof at 5:27 a.m. on 19 December.
- The defendant admitted the actions but argued the prosecution was misguided given the building’s preservation and its interim use by Kunsthalle Schirn.
- He initially received a penal order of 80 day-fines that was reduced to 60 after his challenge, while Goethe University managed the vacant site and filed the complaint in this case.