Bei uns gabs gestern fliegende Sektkorken: Thomas Meyer-Falk ist nach 27 Jahren in Knast und Sicherungsverwahrung frei gelassen worden. Alles gute und bis sehr bald Thomas!

Kurz vor seiner Entlassung gab es noch ein Radiointerview mit ihm:

https://freedomforthomas.wordpress.com/2023/08/10/radiointerview-mit-thomas-zur-aktuellen-situation/

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On 29.08.2023 I, Thomas Meyer-Falk, was released after almost 27 years in prison!

On 29.08.2023 the director of the SV (preventive detention) institution sent me the fax from the OLG (Higher Regional Court)The OLG had rejected the prosecution's appeal hours before.

Within 2 hours everything was packed, put into a prison van and driven to the solidarity project where I am allowed to live for the time being. The reception was very friendly and affectionate.

I also received many congratulations. It feels so good to finally be out of the prison world.

I thank all of you who have walked with me for so long!

Now I am going to the outside world. And I am looking forward to many things - especially to all the encounters.

Thomas Meyer-Falk, Freiburg

https://Freedomforthomas.wordpress.com

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International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners -

Freedom for Thomas!

There is a real chance of finally seeing Thomas outside the walls.

There is movement in the case. After the Freiburg Regional Court decided to release Thomas on 12 July 2023, and the public prosecutor's office appealed, the case has been before the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court since 28 July.

For your information, here is a text written by Thomas in March 2023.

"I have been an anarchist for decades and I was arrested in October 1996 after a bank robbery, no one was killed or heavily injured.

But since that time the state has kept me in prison. On 8th July 2013 I was deported to the ‚Preventative Detention‘ (PD) Unit in the south west of Germany. The PD is something like the IPP in the UK, but PD became law in 1933 by the Nazis and allows the state to keep someone in prison after finishing their sentence, as long as the inmate is supposed to be a threat to public safety. I was judged as a threat to public safety because at the end of the 90’s and beginning of the 2000’s I was agitating strongly against judges and politicians. So I was convicted to more than 5 years punishment. For the bank robbery the court sentenced me to prison for 11 ½ years. The regular sentence ended on 7th July 2013.

Back to the present time: In 2022 a psychiatrist expert from Munich. In her 130 page report the expert came to the conclusion that I would be no threat. In November 2022 a psychologist from the prison and the public prosecutor sent their statements to the court and criticised the expert’s report really hard. But the psychiatrist replied on 17 pages and refuted their arguments.

But the local court in Freiburg, under the presidency of the honourable judge Kronthaler, dissented from the expert’s view. After a two hour hearing on the 15th February 2023 the court informed the parties and gave an order for another expert.

The expert from Munich has been testifying for courts for more than 40 years! But she’s more open minded than her conservative colleagues. For her it wasn’t relevant that I never distanced myself from my past nor my biography and political attitudes.

Friends offered me a place where I could live in town and a local radio station (https://rdl.de/) admitted me into the editorial office. They also offered practical training after my release. Until this takes place I get the possibility to be part of their program by phone, because here at the PD unit we have a phone in the cells. So every month I am on the air. A program called AUSBRUCH (escape/breakout) in which we talk about prisoner’s situations and developments.

The fact that there aren’t any troubles since more than two decades seems not enough for the court, the prison’s administration and the prosecutor. Especially the prison’s psychologist criticized that I had never withdrawn my attitudes. So she and her colleagues were afraid that I would maybe take revenge on judges or politicians. It leaves me in a catch-22.

Anyway, I think an upright attitude is more important than falling on your knees!

Thomas Mayer-Falk
c/o JVA (SV),
Hermann-Herder-Str. 8,
79104 Freiburg,
Germany

https://freedomforthomas.wordpress.com

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Einer PM der Cops zufolge wurde die JVA #Freiburg am Samstagabend symbolisch angegriffen und als zentrales Repressionsinstrument markiert.

Neben anderen sitzt der politische Gefangene Thomas Meyer-Falk seit 10 Jahren in SV hier in der JVA.

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