{"id":462482,"date":"2026-05-01T02:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/462482\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T02:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:26:19","slug":"german-trial-of-irish-man-charged-over-attack-on-idf-connected-offices-is-a-show-trial-says-td-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/462482\/","title":{"rendered":"German trial of Irish man charged over attack on IDF-connected offices is a \u2018show trial\u2019, says TD \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Government has been urged to send monitors to the trial in Germany<\/a> of an Irish man and four others charged over an attack on the offices of a weapons systems supplier to the Israel Defense Forces<\/a> (IDF). <\/p>\n

People Before Profit<\/a> TD Richard Boyd Barrett<\/a> described the case, which started on Monday in Stuttgart<\/a>, as a \u201cshow trial\u201d and said the defendants, including Dubliner Daniel Tatlow-Devally (32), had no direct access to their lawyers.<\/p>\n

He said \u201ccompletely abnormal\u201d restrictions were being imposed. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn any normal trial in Germany the person who is on trial, even if they are a terrorist or neo-Nazi murderer, can sit with their lawyers,\u201d he told the D\u00e1il.<\/p>\n

However, he said the accused in this case \u201care put in behind a high-security glass cage, essentially, so they cannot communicate properly\u201d with their lawyers. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey are being tried as organised criminals when they represented no physical threat to anybody but were actually acting to protest against genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n

The five have been charged with trespassing, causing an estimated \u20ac1 million in property damage, membership of a criminal organisation and use of symbols linked to Hamas, classified in Germany as a terrorist group. <\/p>\n

Boyd Barrett said the defence team \u201care asking that the Irish Government would send monitors to look over this trial\u201d.<\/p>\n

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He called on the Government \u201cto make a public statement in support of Daniel, and to say the way he is being treated by the German legal system is an absolute disgrace\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat pressure can impact on the German government.\u201d<\/p>\n

The D\u00fan Laoghaire TD described the incident in question as a \u201cdirect action protest but it was not one where anybody was physically threatened or harmed\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe people did not run away and they did not resist arrest. Indeed, they waited for the police to come and arrest them.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he said the German authorities have \u201cdecided to try to convict them under legislation that is reserved for organised crime and are trying them now in a court that is normally reserved for terrorists and for organised criminals\u201d.<\/p>\n

Boyd Barrett said Tatlow-Devally has been \u201cincarcerated for 23 hours a day, effectively in solitary confinement\u201d.<\/p>\n

Replying for the Government, Minister of State Frank Feighan said \u201cconsular assistance has been provided to the citizen referred to\u201d since soon after his detention. He said a dedicated officer from the Consulate General of Ireland in Munich had been assigned to support \u201cthe citizen and their family\u201d. <\/p>\n

He said staff from the consulate have visited Tatlow-Devally four times, most recently on April 10th. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in regular contact with the citizen and with family members,\u201d Feighan said.<\/p>\n

He said the Department of Foreign Affairs and its embassies \u201care precluded from intervening in the judicial and legal processes of another country\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, it would not be appropriate to comment on the ongoing legal case,\u201d he said, adding that he would consult the Minister about sending monitors to the trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government has been urged to send monitors to the trial in Germany of an Irish man and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,4767,8104,13,14,6621,69,6,71,6220,3857,11,12,15,16,5,27171,90612,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-462482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dail-eireann","tag-department-of-foreign-affairs","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-germany","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-israel-defence-forces","tag-israel-hamas-conflict","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-people-before-profit-solidarity-pbps","tag-richard-boyd-barrett","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116496956373841125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}