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Friday, November 06, 2020
Hermannstadt – Greenpeace has long been aware of the young activists of Fridays for Future (FFF) in Hermannstadt / Sibiu and promptly initiated a legal action against the fine that the local 40-strong group of school children and Schoolchildren had been imposed by the city police on November 29, 2019 after a spontaneous protest march on the Great Ring / Piața Mare, in which not a single natural or legal person was harmed. Paula Dörr, a student at the Samuel-von-Brukenthal-Gymnasium, and fellow campaigners from several schools in Sibiu had obeyed the relevant law number 61/1991 for a long time in the run-up to the protest rally against Romania’s political class, which was too late to react to threatening climatic changes in the world Years before the birth of numerous activists of the national FFF movement was confirmed and is still valid today.
Andrei Avram, lawyer for Greenpeace Romania, admits in a press release published on October 26th on greenpeace.org/romania/ that the young people from FFF Sibiu did not adhere to the spatial requirements of the advance on the day the four-digit fine was imposed at the end of November 2019 authorized meeting of their group to protest in front of the town hall. In fact, the youths, who had been regulated by law enforcement officers and the police, spontaneously left the square in front of the tourist information center of the town hall and chanted around the Christmas market on the Großer Ring, which had opened two weeks earlier. In the same press release, the Greenpeace lawyer also complains that Law No. 61/1991 does not adequately guarantee the rights of people protesting peacefully and that it falls short of the current democratic framework of case law at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
“We young people are faced with problems that we did not cause ourselves,” emphasizes FFF activist Paula Dörr, whose mother, who was of legal age, was asked to pay the fine to pay the fine. “When young people from around the world raise the alarm about the effects of the climate crisis, adults, especially those in authoritarian positions, need to listen to them and support them rather than punish them,” the press release said for the Attorney Andrei Avram vouches. Greenpeace Romania has asked the relevant judicial authority to appeal to the Constitutional Court (CC) regarding the problematic aspects of the law on public assemblies and announces that it has officially registered the civil society request for changes to the law on protests on October 20th. The new text draft of the law submitted by Greenpeace and partner organizations is currently going through the stage of parliamentary debate.
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