A Jesuit priest prefers prison over a fine to draw attention to climate change

Originally Father Jörg Alt was supposed to pay a fine for an adhesive action in Nuremberg, in which he had participated in 2022. Instead, he has an important reason for going into restitution.

A Jesuit priest prefers prison over a fine to draw attention to climate change

A Jesuit priest says he will rather go to prison than pay a fine of 500 euros or $541 for participating in a climate activists’ street blockade in the southern German city of Nuremberg.

Going to prison is “the last form of protest I have left.” This is what the German Jesuit Jörg Alt said this April 1st in a statement sent to

A German Jesuit priest is trying to raise awareness about the fight against climate change in an unusual way. He has decided to go to prison rather than pay a fine of 500 euros for participating in a street blockade by climate activists in the southern German city of Nuremberg. His sin, which the court will punish, is that he participated in a protest in which he and other environmental activists blocked traffic and stuck their hands to the stre…

Nuremberg - The Nuremberg Jesuit priest and climate activist Jörg Alt stuck himself on the street and blocked the traffic - for this he must now go to prison. He is a role model, writes Manuel Kugler in his pro-comment.

Nuremberg - Actually, Father Jörg Alt should pay a fine for the adhesive action in Nuremberg. Instead, he has an important reason for going into restitution.