Berlin, September 19, 2025 – A criminal complaint against German Government officials and arms trade executives was filed today by a collective of lawyers in Berlin with the support of the European Legal Support Center (ELSC), Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD) and Law for Palestine. The Complaint was announced at a press conference today.
The charges were filed at the Office of the Federal Prosecutor in Karlsruhe (‘Generalbundesanwaltschaft’) against eleven high ranking officials of the former and current German government and CEOs of arms manufacturers, namely former Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, former Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock, former Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck, current Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz, current Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Johann Wadephul and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Katherina Reiche, Federal Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius, as well as Dr. Jörg Stratmann, CEO of Rolls-Royce Solutions GmbH, Michael Humbek, CEO of Dynamit Nobel Defence GmbH, and Dr. Alexander Sagel and Susanne Wiegand, current and former CEOs of RENK Group AG.
The Federal Prosecutor must respect the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and initiate investigations on potential crimes if sufficient grounds for suspicion are apparent.
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