Dresden: attacks on police officers during a crown demonstration

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GRAMDue to Corona restrictions, thousands of people across Germany took to the streets on Saturday. There were also demonstrations despite previous bans. Twelve policemen were injured in Dresden. Representatives of the media were attacked in Stuttgart. The German Association of Journalists denounced attacks. “If Corona’s frustration spills over into violence against journalists and against police officers, that cannot be excused,” DJV Federal Chairman Frank Überall said Saturday night.

Despite the ban on the manifestation of “lateral thinking” upheld by the Higher Administrative Court of Saxony, many critics of the crown’s measures in the city had gathered in Dresden. According to the police operations log, more than 1,000 people gathered at the congress center near the state parliament alone, many without masks and at a minimum distance. According to the police operations log, twelve officers were injured. In addition, 47 criminal offenses were recorded, including nine physical attacks on law enforcement officers, seven insults, and two violations of the Arms Act and two violations of the Assemblies Act. In addition, he resisted law enforcement officers 17 times. 915 reprimands were issued and 943 complaints were made for violating the Saxon Crown Protection Ordinance.

In Stuttgart, hundreds of people demonstrated in Stuttgart on Saturday against a year of policy of lockdown, school closings, isolation and bankruptcies. After the dissolution of the demonstration, representatives of the media were attacked. A participant in the demonstration threw a Südwestrundfunk (SWR) television crew with an object, as a police spokesman said late at night. No one was injured. A spokesperson for SWR confirmed the incident.

Police reported that other media representatives who had pitched their tents in front of the state parliament to report on the state elections were verbally assaulted by the participants in the demonstration and described in chants as “lying press.” There was a “particularly heated mood,” the spokesman said. Circles around the rally spoke of up to 1,500 participants in the demonstration under the slogan “Enough.” A police spokesman only wanted to confirm that the number of participants was “well above the 750 participants originally registered.”

In many other cities, too, people took to the streets under the slogan “One year of confinement policy is enough.” In Munich, the police broke up a demonstration because the conditions were not met and the number of allowed participants was exceeded. According to the police, around 2,000 people demonstrated against Corona’s restrictions in the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament in Düsseldorf. Police counted up to 1,000 protesters in Berlin, and there were hundreds each in Kiel, Hannover, Erfurt, Cottbus and Potsdam.

Meanwhile, several federal states have announced the consequences of cuts in vaccine deliveries by the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company Astrazeneca. Therefore, Thuringia suspended the appointment of vaccinations and postponed the planned start of vaccinations with GPs. Saxony-Anhalt is currently suspending vaccinations for police officers. In Berlin, the new vaccination dates will be extended, as a spokesman for the health administration said.

Astrazeneca announced on Friday that instead of the last 220 million cans planned, it would only deliver 100 million to EU countries by mid-year. The group justified it, among other things, with restrictions on exports from other countries. The announcement is “absolutely unacceptable” and greatly destroys confidence, said Bavarian Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU politician) of “Bild am Sonntag”. “It cannot be that the export restrictions are at the expense of the people. It’s enough, ”Holetschek said. Bavaria still wants to start vaccination by general practitioners on April 1, especially in border regions.

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