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Critics of the Infection Protection Act are said to have reached the Bundestag on the sidelines of the crown demonstration. They reportedly tried to enter the MP offices and harassed politicians. The AfD is suspected of smuggling them.
The day of the vote on the amended Infection Protection Act in the Bundestag and Bundesrat was accompanied by massive protests from opponents of the law. Visitors to the Bundestag who had entered the building despite the suspension of the visitor rule by the President of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Schäuble, were particularly irritating.
Neck: “I’m stunned”
The deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group, Katja Mast, tweeted: “People who entered the Bundestag clandestinely have tried, among other things, to break into the offices of individual MPs. I am astonished. Prevent freely elected MPs from voting and harass them. it is the latter. The goal: to undermine democracy. “
A video posted on Twitter also shows a woman speaking to Economy Minister Peter Altmaier in a Bundestag corridor and recording him with a cell phone camera. The woman talks to Altmaier and says, among other things, apparently about the minister: “He has no conscience.” Altmaier responds that he represents his voters. “It can manifest itself, but my conscience is clear.” Other media publish a photo of Altmaier, to whom a woman speaks and films in front of an elevator.
Kuhle: Meeting in front of the plenary hall
FDP MP Konstantin Kuhle told the dpa news agency that he had met the same woman in front of the plenary hall. You asked him how he wanted to vote. He was not expecting a meeting at the moment and moved on.
The woman had a guest ID on her jacket, like the one visitors get who have been registered by parliamentary groups or individual parliamentarians. “This shows symptomatically that our democracy only works if you play by the rules,” said Kuhle, who also wrote on Twitter that people “had been smuggled in” and were harassing MPs.
Kuhle said that ARD capital study: “You have to say that this is a new quality of disregard for our parliamentary rules. That has to be addressed very clearly and clearly opposed.”
Film shows conversation with AfD MP Hemmelgarn
Through a live broadcast from the Udo Hemmelgarn (AfD) office, you can see a group of people with the camera on and meet other trafficked visitors. In a film distributed on YouTube you can hear: “What office are you here for again? (Mumbling) Are you here through Hansjörg Müller? Yes (can be heard clearly)”.
Müller also belongs to the AfD parliamentary group. In the afternoon, the crowd celebrated him on a Spree bridge overlooking the Bundestag for calling for more action against “a mafia government” that had passed an “enabling law” on behalf of large corporations.
The Parliamentary Managing Director of the AfD parliamentary group, Bernd Baumann, said that his parliamentary group had no evidence that AfD members had smuggled unauthorized persons. “If guests who have been regularly searched by individual members and who have been checked by the Bundestag have violated the house rules, we will investigate these allegations.”
Council of elders advises on consequences
According to the Bundestag press office, it is currently checking which visitors have been admitted to the buildings. Tomorrow, the council of elders wants to deal with it and determine who the rioters were invited and what consequences are possible, according to the SPD parliamentary group.
According to the ARD capital studies The Bundestag visitor service allows guests to enter the Bundestag building by registering by email up to 24 hours prior to arrival. The name, date of birth and address, as well as the person to be visited in the Bundestag, must be indicated.
Violation of crown measures: demo dissolved
The police broke up a demonstration of opponents of the Infection Protection Act in central Berlin in the afternoon after the corona measures were not observed. There were injuries and almost 200 people were temporarily detained.
With information from Angela Tesch, ARD capital studio
