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- A group of right-wing extremists wanted to storm the Reichstag on Saturday. Only three policemen got in the way.
- The partially violent protests in Berlin are harshly condemned by politicians and police.
- The German Interior Minister explained that the freedom of assembly guaranteed by the constitution also has limits.
Protesters against the state’s crown policy broke a cordon at the Reichstag building in Berlin on Saturday night and stormed the Reichstag stairs. 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 among 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.
Only three policemen secured the building
Videos circulating on the Internet show people standing at the Reichstag gate. Only three policemen stood in his way.
The police speech said: “We cannot always be present everywhere, it is precisely this gap that was used to scale the barricade, to cross and then to reach the stairs in front of the Reichstag.”
Interior Minister Seehofer: “unbearable” process
The escalation of the protests has called representatives of the German government to the scene. For example, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer explained to “Bild am Sonntag”: The fact that chaos and extremists misused the Reichstag building and therefore the place of activity of our parliament and the symbolic center of our liberal democracy for its purposes, it was unbearable. Diversity of opinion is “a trademark of a healthy society.”
The CSU politician explains that freedom of assembly “has its limits where state norms are trampled.”
His cabinet colleague, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, tweeted: “Nazi symbols, Reich citizens, and imperial flags have absolutely nothing to do with the German Bundestag.” And his SPD colleague, Chancellor Heiko Maas, added: “The Reich flags in front of the parliament are shameful.”
“What happened was to be expected”
Berlin Interior Senator Andreas Geisel, who failed with his ban on demonstrations in front of the courts, described the events at the protests as predictable: “What happened today was to be expected,” he said late at night on ARD. Because not only would have met on Saturday people who criticized the individual decisions of the government with respect to Corona. Rather, there were not a few protesters who “harbor doubts about our basic free democratic order and want to attack it.”
People are radicalized, Geisel said. And he does not believe that “it will serve democracy if we bend down and show no attitude.”
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