Climate mad Jesuit disappointed not to be shown the full force of the law

Proceedings against German "Climate Father" Alt Dismissed

Apocalypse 2012

I was there!

"The "Apocalypse 2012" was a popular belief in late 2012 that the world would end or undergo a catastrophic transformation, based on a misinterpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar's 5,126-year cycle ending on December 21, 2012."  The Jesuits, the Barmy Army of the modern Catholic Church.  No wonder vocations are not forthcoming; no one wants to be recruited into a barmy army.

Order member "bitterly disappointed by the Bavarian justice system"

The district court in Nuremberg, Germany, has dismissed proceedings against the religious and climate activist Jörg Alt. The case concerned allegations that the Jesuit priest gave a speech to a sit-in by climate activists in front of Nuremberg Central Station in August 2023, thereby supporting the protest. Alt announced on Thursday that the proceedings were dismissed not due to a lack of evidence, but because the expected sentence was not significant compared to the prison sentence he had already served. The court confirmed this upon inquiry from the Catholic News Agency (KNA). The dismissal took place on Tuesday.

"It's sad to see the contortions people are prepared to make in order to prevent the defense of free and critical speech in public and the facts of the climate crisis from being further promoted," Alt criticized. The Jesuit added that he would have liked to have taken this case to the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. The district court is now blocking this avenue. "I am bitterly disappointed with the Bavarian judiciary," Alt complained.

The religious further complained that, while the costs of the proceedings had been imposed on the state treasury, he had to bear his necessary expenses in the form of his defense costs, even though a judge who was later declared biased participated in the main hearing against him. The court deviated from the general rule of cost-bearing to his detriment, Alt said. There is no legal remedy against either the dismissal of the proceedings or the decision regarding costs.

Regarding the issue of costs, a judicial spokeswoman explained in response to a KNA inquiry that the decision was a discretionary decision by the court. It was quite common practice in the manner it was made.

Alt was in custody for 25 days in April. He had refused to pay a €500 fine, which the Bavarian Supreme Court had sentenced him to in November 2024. The Jesuit had participated in several road blockades. This case involved a blockade in Nuremberg in 2022. He declined an alternative offer of social work.

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