The trial of five pro-Palestinian activists accused of attacking an Israeli defence company’s site in Germany is due to continue on Monday after a chaotic start in late April.<\/p>\n
The defendants are accused of breaking into the company’s premises in the south-western city of Ulm at night and destroying valuable company inventory.<\/p>\n
At the start of the trial in late April, defence lawyers staged a protest by sitting in the defendants’ seats inside the heavily secured court building in Stuttgart. The judge then adjourned the hearing before the charges could be read out.<\/p>\n
The attack on the defence company last year drew significant attention and outrage.<\/p>\n
The Ulm 5, as the group has become known, are three women and two men of Irish, British, Spanish and German nationality, aged between 25 and 40.<\/p>\n
They are accused of criminal damage and trespass, as well as of being members of a criminal organization over their ties to Palestine Action Germany.<\/p>\n
The activists allegedly broke into a site belonging to a German subsidiary of the Israeli defence company Elbit Systems in September 2025, aiming to protest Germany’s support for Israel during the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Elbit is a provider of military equipment for the Israeli military, while the German subsidiary develops and manufactures military communications equipment.<\/p>\n
The start of the trial was chaotic. Pro-Palestinian activists demonstrated outside the court building, while dozens of spectators shouted and applauded as the defendants were brought into the courtroom in handcuffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trial of five pro-Palestinian activists accused of attacking an Israeli defence company’s site in Germany is due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7880,7879,5,7876,7882,7877],"class_list":["post-11935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-defence-company","tag-defence-lawyers","tag-germany","tag-higher-regional-court","tag-israeli-defense","tag-ulm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}