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German court to rule on legality of British spycop operation
A demonstrator outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, where an Investigatory Powers Tribunal is hearing the case of Kate Wilson who was deceived into a relationship by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy, in 2018
A GERMAN court is set to rule on whether a British spying operation against climate activists in the country in the 2000s was lawful.
The challenge, the first of its kind to look at British police spying on campaign groups outside the UK, focuses on the case of campaigner Jason Kirkpatrick, who brought the action.
The US-born activist was targeted by notorious spycop Mark Kennedy, who served in the now-defunct national public order intelligence unit (NPOIU), while co-ordinating press coverage during the 2007 protests against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm.
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