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- The partially violent protests in Berlin against the decisions of the crown by the German government are harshly condemned by politicians and the police.
- The German Interior Minister explained that the freedom of assembly guaranteed by the constitution also has limits.
- Such demonstrations are an ideal environment for radical movements, detectives warned.
The head of the Association of German Criminal Investigators, Sebastian Fiedler, warns of the dangerous consequences of crown protests like Saturday in Berlin. “These demonstrations are an ideal environment for radical movements to win more and more people to their ideologies,” he told the “Rheinische Post”. Because “the enemies of democracy mix with parts of the social center, conspiracy theories can spread ever faster.”
Politicians must explain their decisions
As a result, there is a sense of community between groups that previously had nothing to do with each other. This must be tolerated by the rule of law, after all, the right to demonstrate must be preserved. “But that can be dangerous for the stability of society and free democracy,” warns Fiedler. Therefore, politicians are more obliged than ever to publicly declare their measures and also to publicly resolve the dispute over them.
And the security authorities are also necessary. We would have to “examine structures on the Internet even more closely and combat them,” emphasizes the association’s director, Fiedler. “This is the only way to counter the accelerating spread of conspiracy theories.”
Interior Minister Seehofer: unbearable
Representatives of the German government have also called for the escalation of the protests in Berlin. For example, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer explained to the “Bild am Sonntag”: The fact that chaos and extremists misused the Reichstag building and thus the place of activity of our parliament and the center symbolic of our liberal democracy for their purposes, it is 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 no place in front of the German Bundestag.” And his SPD colleague, Chancellor Heiko Maas, added: “The Reich flags in front of parliament are a disgrace.
“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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