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Stop Allianz harassing activists
Allianz are proceeding with a civil lawsuit suing two groups of activists for hundreds of thousands of pounds in damages for allegedly targeting the company in October 2024 and March 2025 respectively, and independent of each other, with the aim of pressuring them to drop Elbit Systems as a client. Allianz is the world’s largest insurance company and Europe’s largest financial services company. Who until December 2025, invested in stocks and shares of Elbit Systems, who produce 85% of the weapons used in the illegal genocide in Palestine. After a sustained campaign by activists across Europe, Allianz dropped Elbit as a client. Despite this they are pursuing aggressive and unprecedented legal tactics to intimidate and harm the activists that drew attention to their complicity in genocide. In November 2025, Allianz used private investigators, including APW Investigators who boast of using ‘ex police officers’ to ‘follow the target’, to track the activists down. This included going to their family homes, previous addresses, and being placed in contact with their landlords. Regardless of the two actions being unconnected and both groups disputing the cost of damages, Allianz UK are suing the activists for a collective £289,694, not inclusive of legal representative costs. They have also rejected legal requests to stay the proceedings until after criminal proceedings are completed in the Crown Court. To be clear, neither of these groups have been found guilty in a court of law. The defendants cannot afford legal representation for this civil case, where legal aid is not an option. Therefore these activists would have their lives torn apart by being forced to pay the international insurance giant these massively inflated, abstract and symbolic damages. Should the activists be found liable for these costs, the money will be recouped from any savings and future salaries until it is paid off in full, so potentially for the rest of their lives. This means a lifetime of financial burden and associated distress and instability to pay damages to an international insurance company that reported annual profits of £14.8 billion in the last year alone (2025).
