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The Vals gneiss at Bundesplatz is once again an empty area. In the morning, the individual participants of the climate camp returned to remove the last remains. On Wednesday night, the Bern canton police evacuated the camp of climate activists who had taken over the Bundesplatz since early Monday morning under the slogan #RiseUpForChange.
Even more than the climate on earth, the heads of some parliamentarians in the Federal Palace seemed to heat up during the occupation. Especially the bourgeois politicians were angry about the climate field and the unwillingness of the Bern city government to clean up the occupied Bundesplatz.
“Frau Arschlan” by Andreas Glarner
Some of them lost their composure completely. Andreas Glarner, Aargau’s senior vice president national councilor, known as a provocateur, described the climate activists as “communists and chaos.” At the entrance to the Federal Palace, he called his colleague from the national council Sibel Arslan (Greens, Basel-Stadt) “Frau Arschlan” in front of the cameras. He explained to Arslan, who was twice elected to the National Council by the people of Basel, that law and order are at stake here, “that doesn’t exist in his state.” When asked by Arslan, Glarner said he was referring to Turkey. Arslan was born in 1980 in Erzincan, Turkey, arrived in Basel in 1991 at the age of 11, and became a Swiss citizen in 2004.
At the request of the CH Media editorial team, Glarner denied insulting the Basler woman: “I did not refer to National Councilor Sibel Arslan as Ms. Arschlan, that was an inadvertent slip of the tongue.” For this he later apologized to TeleZüri.
Television recordings are misleading. Because shortly before the discussion with Arslan, he observed that one of the protesters stopped the truck of a market driver. “So I took a photo of the man and told him that I would report him to the police.” The activist then turned to Sibel Arslan for help. Arslan then announced that he would report me. I explained to him that in Switzerland you need a reason, unlike in Turkey ”. Arslan has dual Swiss-Turkish citizenship, so Turkey is also his state.
Sibel Arslan declined to comment on Wednesday’s episode. The president of the Greens, Balthasar Glättli, on the other hand, was not impressed by Glarner’s statement: “Mr. Glarner has a long and well-documented history of provocations and that he pushes all limits of decency. Therefore, the public is in a position to correctly classify the last episode with Sibel Arslan “for what it is: a contempt and a lack of respect for a politically different person.”
“Assholes” by Roland Büchel
Andreas Glarner’s fellow St. Gallen party, Roland Büchel, also resorted to anomalies. On Tuesday he described climate activists in front of a “Blick TV” reporter as “morons.” When the journalist began filming the scene, Büchel called for an activist to “go away” and “hold his trunk”.
“Huere fucking Glarner”: verbal frenzy in the context of the controversial climate protest at the Bundesplatz in Bern
© CH Media / Blick TV / SRF
Jacqueline Badrans «fucking with Glarner»
Unlike her colleagues on the SVP council, SP National Councilor Jacqueline Badran (Zurich) was upset not with the climate activists, but with the media coverage. She told an SRF reporter from “Echo der Zeit” that the media filmed the wrong scenes and asked the wrong questions: “Before that, you filmed the fucking Glarner, who cares, instead of the young people’s demands. Badran grumbled.
No legal consequences
Abusive behavior by members of the National Council should not have legal consequences, at least not under the leadership of the Bundestag. A spokeswoman for the parliamentary services stated at the request that the parliamentary law does not provide sanctions for statements made by council members outside the Federal Palace.
The president of the National Council Isabelle Moret (FDP, Vaud) did not refer to the incidents on Wednesday in the National Council room. However, at night, responding to a request, she stated in writing that “decency is a basic requirement for social coexistence.” This applies between family members, co-workers and also between parliamentarians. Freedom of assembly suspended during sessions.
Parliament had been concerned about the climate field since the beginning of the week. On Monday, the president of the Moret National Council and the president of the Council of States Hans Stöckli (SP, Bern) called on the city and canton authorities of Bern in a letter to take action against the “illegal act” as soon as possible. .
On Monday evening, the majority of the National Council approved a motion of order by the leader of the SVP parliamentary group, Thomas Aeschi, who demanded the eviction on Tuesday morning. The freedom of assembly guaranteed by the constitution does not apply during sessions on the Bundesplatz. Regulations of the city of Bern prohibit demonstrations there when parliament is in session.
