Superglue on the road
Suspended sentence for German climate activist Windl
Updated May 12, 2026 – 5:01 p.mReading time: 1 min.
Trial against “climate glue” in Vienna: Among those convicted is a central figure in the protest scene. The young German recently took part in an event involving Merz’s private plane.
The German climate activist Anja Windl has been sentenced to an eight-month suspended sentence in Austria. The Vienna regional court found the 29-year-old and three colleagues guilty of criminal damage and serious damage to property, as the Austrian news agency APA reported.
Windl, who comes from the Straubing area, is considered a central figure in the climate protest movement in Austria. In the trial, she and other activists were accused of protest actions in which they stuck themselves to important traffic routes in Austria with sand and superglue. The verdict is not yet final.
Windl, who was part of the former network Last Generation, pleaded not guilty, the APA reported. “She is deeply concerned about the consequences of the climate crisis that we are already feeling,” said her lawyer.
Major trial against activists
A total of 47 former members of the now disbanded Last Generation were accused in the major trial in Vienna. Dozens of fines have already been imposed in the process. The three co-defendants who were now convicted along with Windl also received fines.
In January, Windl and another woman and a man were arrested at the hangar on Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s (CDU) private plane in Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia. They are said to have tried to damage the head of government’s plane, the police and public prosecutor’s office said. Windl then acknowledged the planned action.
