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Hundreds of protesters, many with Reich flags, broke a cordon in front of the Reichstag during the anti-crown demonstration in Berlin. Politicians express their horror at the images.
Politicians from almost all parties have expressed dismay at the events in the Reichstag in Berlin during the protests against the Crown measures. “The Reichstag building is the place of activity of our parliament and therefore the symbolic center of our free democracy. It is unbearable that chaos and extremists abuse it for their own ends,” said Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) from “Bild am Sonntag”.
Protesters against the crown’s state policy broke a cordon at the Reichstag building in Berlin on Saturday night and advanced towards the Reichstag steps. The police officers pushed people back. The police used pepper spray, there were fights. Earlier there had been a demonstration in the Reichstag building. The black, white and red imperial flags used by the imperial citizens could also be seen on the protesters. Later, the police broke up the demonstration. Emergency forces cleared the space in front of the Reichstag building and pushed the protesters away.
Videos circulating on the Internet show people standing at the Reichstag gate. Only three policemen stood in his way. You can see the corresponding scenes in the video or above here.
Police spokesman Thilo Cablitz explained: “We cannot always be present everywhere, it was precisely this gap that was used to scale the barricade, go through and then climb the stairs in front of the Reichstag.”
“The flags of the Reich in front of Parliament are a disgrace”
“Diversity of opinion is a hallmark of a healthy society. However, freedom of assembly has its limits when state rules are trampled on,” Seehofer said. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) tweeted: “The Reich flags in front of the parliament are shameful.” SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz wrote: “Nazi symbols, Reich citizens and imperial flags have absolutely no place in front of the German Bundestag.”
When asked whether it would have been better to ban the demonstration, SPD Secretary General Lars Klingbeil said he was surprised that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, according to its own statements, had not discovered any indication “that extremists Right wing are trying to open this demonstration. ” infiltrate. “The photos of the day showed something else.” You will have to take a closer look at why this information was apparently not available beforehand or was not properly evaluated, “said the SPD politician on” Bild live. “Now we have to clarify in the council of elders of the Bundestag “how were the concepts of security”.
Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz: “The imperial flags have absolutely no place in front of the German Bundestag.” (Source: Alex Halada / imago images)
According to estimates by the authorities, around 38,000 people participated in the protests in the city on Saturday. As Interior Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) reported in the evening, around 300 people were arrested throughout the day, around 200 just in front of the Russian embassy. There, among other things, a crowd of some 3,000 alleged Reich citizens and right-wing extremists threw stones and bottles at the police. as he said. According to the police, prisoners were also released there. Geisel described the events as predictable. “It was to be expected what happened today,” he said Saturday night at the ARD “Tagesthemen.”
“Just disgusting and embarrassed”
SPD Chancellor Candidate Olaf Scholz (SPD) wrote on Twitter: “Our Basic Law guarantees freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate. It is the answer to the failure of the Weimar Republic and the horrors of the Nazi era. The symbols Nazis, the citizens of the Reich and the imperial flags have absolutely nothing lost in front of the German Bundestag. “
Konstantin von Notz, Green Politician: “It’s just disgusting and embarrassed.” (Source: epd / imago images)
Green MP Konstantin von Notz said: “Participants in a demonstration also mobilized by the AfD and NPD tried to storm the Reichstag. The Reich war flags determine the image in front of the building. # Summer2020 It is simply disgusting and disgraceful “.
The head of the Association of German Criminal Investigators, Sebastian Fiedler, warned of the possible consequences of the crown protests. “These demonstrations are an ideal environment for radical movements to win more and more people for their ideologies,” Fiedler said of the “Rheinische Post.” “There, the enemies of democracy mix with parts of the middle class, so conspiracy theories can spread faster and faster.”
