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After the violence at the women’s demonstration, Green Security Chief Karin Rykart has to hear a lot of criticism. She shows understanding and shares herself.
During this arrest at the corner of Anwandstrasse and Langstrasse, the police officers beat a protester on 6 March.
Photo: Samuel Schalch
What happened at City Hall on Wednesday night is unusual. It emerged that Green Police Chief Karin Rykart had disagreements on fundamental rights issues with Mario Fehr, her Social Democratic counterpart in the canton. Last spring, he criticized the restriction on freedom to demonstrate due to the corona pandemic several times internally. Now Rykart takes one more step and switches to the attack. She publicly accuses Fehr of issuing “incomprehensible rules.”
The trigger for this was two deployments of the city police last Saturday and Monday. Several hundred women, lesbians, inter, trans, non-binary and queer people spoke out about their concerns on Saturday in the run-up to International Women’s Day. The city police stopped the march with tear gas and reported more than a hundred people. When two women were arrested, a police officer hit a protester on the head several times. For this reason, more than a hundred women demonstrated on Monday with a sit-in in front of the city’s police headquarters. Again the police broke up the protest with a large contingent (Read more here).
