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“The Reich flags and the far-right mob in front of the German Bundestag are an unbearable attack on the heart of our democracy. We will never accept it,” said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
As reported, a large group of aggressive protesters against crown policy had broken through the barriers at the Reichstag building in Berlin on Saturday night. They climbed the stairs and stood triumphantly in front of the glass-enclosed visitor entrance.
According to police estimates, nearly 40,000 people across Germany had previously demonstrated largely peacefully against Corona’s policy. On the periphery, however, there were attacks by Reich citizens and right-wing extremists against police officers in front of the Russian embassy near the Brandenburg Gate. A crowd of 3,000 people threw stones and bottles.
“Unbearable” and “embarrassing”
Federal President Steinmeier He stressed: “Our democracy is alive.” Anyone who is angry at the Crown’s measures or doubts its need can do so, also in public, even at demonstrations. “My understanding ends where the protesters get hooked on the cars of the enemies of democracy and political agitators.”
President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) said the German press agency: “After these scenes, the last person should have understood that there are also limits to decency, how far you go with who runs with you. The responsibility of not letting the extremists instrumentalize you in your protest can nobody evade “. The fact that this attack may even occur “must be addressed quickly and completely.”
The German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) explains in the “Bild am Sonntag”: “The Reichstag building is the place of activity of our parliament and therefore the symbolic center of our liberal democracy. It is unbearable that chaos and extremists misuse it for their own ends “.
Chancellor Heiko Maas (SPD) He tweeted: “The Reich flags in front of Parliament are disgraceful.” SPD candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote: “Nazi symbols, imperial and imperial flags have absolutely no place in front of the German Bundestag.” SPD Secretary General Lars Klingbeil He said the Bundestag council of elders had to clarify “what the security concepts were like.”
The initiator distances himself
The initiator of the great manifestation, Michael Ballweg of the Stuttgart Lateral Thinking Initiative, distanced himself from the rioters. “They have nothing to do with our movement.” Lateral thinking is a peaceful and democratic movement, violence has no place there. However, he does not understand why the Berlin Interior senator “does not present the appropriate police forces to counter such actions,” especially since they knew each other beforehand, Ballweg said. “Why can’t you protect the building?”
Videos circulating on the Internet show how more than a hundred people cheering and shouting remain for minutes in and above the grand staircase right in front of the Reichstag gate. In addition to the imperial flag, German, American and Russian flags and banners can also be seen. Three policemen try to keep the crowd at bay by waving batons. In the background, a man shouts: “We are at peace, we are at peace.” Another man keeps yelling, “Crazy, crazy.”
Of the Berlin police spokesman Thilo Cablitz He tried to explain that night: “We cannot always be present everywhere, it was precisely this gap that was used to scale the barricade, to break through and then to reach the stairs in front of the Reichstag.” A full police record of Saturday’s demonstration is due to be published on Sunday.
What was the deciding factor in lifting the original ban? ORF correspondent Andreas Jölli reports:
“It was expected”
Interior Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) reported Saturday night that around 300 people were arrested throughout the day, around 200 in the attacks in front of the Russian embassy alone. Geisel described the events as predictable. “It was to be expected what happened today,” he said Saturday night at the ARD “Tagesthemen.” Vegan cookbook car Attila Hildmann, who calls himself a “far right” and a preacher of the conspiracy, was also arrested outside the Russian embassy.
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