Chaos continues on the streets of Germany: drunk and aggressive crowd greets Frankfurt officials with bottle hail

Here at the opera house, a crowd of demolished drunken youths, furious for a few hours, threw bottles and stones at police officers and their cars, threw garbage cans onto the street, and smashed the glass at the bus stop. . And the scene of this barbaric fury was the old Frankfurt Opera with the inscription “Dem Wahren, Schönen, Guten” (For what is right, beautiful and good) adorning its portal.

In recent weeks, the square in front of the old opera has become a “party area”, and after the “parties” there are mountains of garbage. Engaged Frankfurt residents, volunteer voters in the garbage plaza, told the Bild newspaper two weeks ago when they saw men knock on the doors of the opera house at night and threw empty bottles at them.

And City Council security officer Markus Frank (CDU) complained: officials were simply evicted when they tried to point out the need to follow coronavirus rules or throw trash in the trash.

Rushed police officers greeted by “bottle hail”

On Saturday night, like almost every weekend this summer, some 3,000 people gathered in the square in front of the opera to “celebrate”. The mood, according to Frankfurt Police Chief Gerhard Bereswill, was initially peaceful. But in the middle of three nights, fights broke out, involving 25-30 people.

In Bereswill’s words, “bottle hail” rushed to the police to help one of them, wounded and left lying on the ground. At least five officers were injured. “It is particularly shocking that the remaining 500-800 people began to cheer and applaud when the bottle hit the officer,” said the police chief. “They masked and shouted” ACAB “(” all the police are bastards “)”.

The bottles also flew towards the soon assisted reinforcement of 120 officers. With the formation of police chains, the riots were put down, 39 people were arrested: 38 young men, “beginning in Syria, Turkey, ending in Morocco and Spain,” and one woman. None of them were already known to the police for bodily injury, theft, and drug sales.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, the square and the stairs of the old opera were covered in fragments and rubbish, Frankfurter Neue Presse wrote. Sweepers and waste haulers removed traces of the night. However, there is great concern about how to solve the problem in many German cities: young immigrants who do not recognize the authority of state institutions have barricaded themselves here in some public spaces.

Threatened by riots, as in the French suburbs

Frankfurt Police Chief G. Bereswill did not even try to hide that they are the cause of this chaos on Sunday at a press conference, unlike his colleague in Stuttgart, Franz Lutz, after the riots with the shoplifting on June 21. talking about “young boys” and “party crowd”.

The term ‘migrant origin’ is too abstract, said Stefan Luft, a conflict researcher who commented on the troubled Frankfurt weekend. The vast majority of young people who have rebelled are socializing in Muslim culture, with its inherent masculinity standards that legitimize violence, Deutschlandfunk told German radio on Monday.

Luft emphasized the need to speak openly about the causes of such excesses and the suspects. “It just came to our attention then. It cannot be said that certain issues cannot be discussed because they can be exploited by undesirable political groups.” Otherwise there will be a real threat of losing control and we will experience similar unrest in Germany as we see it in the French suburbs, “he warned.

Finally, it is also about the safety of the population. As an example, Mr. Luft mentioned the areas of the Stuttgart Schloßgarten and the central station, where young men of migrant origin have met for several years, which is why women avoid these places.

The taboo resembles a story of the king’s new clothing.

“Part of the solution to the problem is a clear identification of its causes: the failed integration and the reluctance of the left elites to see the pains. This situation is intolerable. I will not accept it,” said Stefan Müller (CSU), leader of the group of the Bundestag Christian Social Union, after the events in Frankfurt.

It is not uncommon to hear a representative of the ruling coalition party openly name the problem this way. Even more moderate in this area are the ideologues of the “heterogeneous society”, the green or the leftist Die Linke. True, there are exceptions. Boris Palmer, the mayor of Tübingen, a member of the Greens, speaks out against the taboo of failed integration, which has repeatedly led the Nazis to call themselves Nazis and called for a right-wing AfD.

“People see his appearance and draw their own conclusions,” Palmer jumped again after the Stuttgart riots. And his always open name is “morally stigmatized and taboo.” These ideas should not be expressed, even if everyone sees them. It is reminiscent of a fairy tale about the king’s new clothes, “he said in an interview with the conservative liberal magazine Tichys Einblick.

Is this just a typical manifestation of masculinity?

And the discourse of the “new royal clothing” dominates the mainstream media. Immediately after the scandalous events, there is an avalanche of justifying arguments that speak to the typical behavior of young men.

“It is typical for young people to test how far they can go, where there are limits, which is a typical part of their training,” said Annemarie Schmoll, a lawyer and sociologist, after the Stuttgart riots in the Stuttgarter Nachrichten newspaper.

“By the way, I don’t remember throwing bottles or rocks at the police or” settling “a dispute with an opponent with a knife,” said Steffen Melzer, who has been training police for 15 years.

Another often used justification is the lack of perspective for young migrants. These are young men who have developed “dissocial personality disorder,” “don’t know how to handle affect and are easily offended” and “lack the prospect of the future,” suggested psychologist Hans Hopf.

Now another justification has been added: the coronavirus has greatly reduced opportunities for young people to celebrate, leading to the concentration of young people, especially those living in narrow dwellings, in squares and streets. However, according to Hesse Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU), closed clubs and discotheques cannot be an excuse for violence against the police.

The coronavirus crisis has really acted as a catalyst, admits conflict researcher Luft. However, there is another psychological reason: in 2015-2016. Young people who came to Germany are now frustrated that their expectations, which were too high, have not been met, as their chances on the country’s labor market have turned out to be poor. “These are losers who see themselves as victims of society and therefore want to fight this society,” said Luft.

We are dirty and then they say we are dirty

The environment has also been warmed by “widespread reports of racism and racial discrimination” by police in recent months, Frankfurt Police Chief Bereswill told HR-Info on Monday. The cases of violence by the American police were “handed over one by one to the German police.”

As a result, police officers who have attempted to control foreign-looking people in recent weeks have been immediately identified as racist. And not only the controlled ones themselves. People from outside the country were in a hurry to intervene with the allegations and allegations, said Johannes Michael von Gillhausen, a spokesman for the Stuttgart police.

And although, according to surveys, the police trust up to 86 percent. the country’s population, but accusations and suspicions abound in the media and on the political left. “The police have the impression that they are brushing us with dirt, and then we have to listen to the reproach: you are completely dirty,” said Jörg Radek, the head of the German police union.

It was not hidden from him or from Frankfurt Police Chief G. Bereswill, who learned on Monday that the 39 people arrested after the Frankfurt riots were released again: “This is disappointing and a disastrous sign for our officials “

Frankfurt is just another volcanic eruption

There has been much bitterness in the country in recent years. And not only because of the aggressive behavior of some young migrants, but also because of inadequately lenient law enforcement, the reluctance of politicians and the media to see obvious problems.

“Even if it is not politically desirable, it goes without saying: whoever has visited our metropolitan centers and shopping streets in recent years, must feel the aggressive humor emanating from these young people. What has been building up for years has now exploded. This Uncomfortable truth has been presented to our cops In bottles Heads up It has to stop! ”Daniel Cremer emotionally demanded in the Bild newspaper on Monday.

And Hesse MP, Christian Democrat Ismail Tipi, who was born and raised in a family of Turkish immigrants, calls the weekend’s events in Frankfurt another volcanic eruption and disbelieves in those who are now shocked, that it is unexpected and unexpected.

“Crossing red lines, attacks on police, officials, ambulances and firefighters was only a matter of time. My own district recently gave a sad example when firefighters and police in Dycenbach (Hesse district town) were ambushed and stoned with Molotov cocktails “

Neglects the state in which it was comfortably installed

“If our rule of law does not stop and show rigor, then breaking the taboo in our society will become the rule, attacks on public officials will be tolerated, and crossing the red lines will soon be so natural that no one will.” I. Tipi warns.

Much bitter truth has been voiced by press readers in recent days. The following comment from Cicero’s reader, Ellen Wolf, after the article on the Frankfurt riots is typical, both in terms of meaning and tone.

“It really gives the impression that these young people despise our culture and our state, even though they are very well established and enjoy all that our country has to offer them. Naturally, the question arises, how long will we want and be able to endure this? “Through their behavior, they incite racism and prejudice against certain groups of people, thus contributing to the fragmentation of our society. They have the happiness of living in the freest, most social and just state, and they thank them with disrespect arrogant behavior and stupid arrogance. “

It is not difficult to imagine that a large part of the country’s population thinks and feels similarly. Few people, especially those in positions of responsibility, dare to speak openly about this if they do not want to be built in the right corner, along with the “Alternative to Germany”.