According to Chemnitz now Köthen: Again, it’s Attacks seem to come to a Demonstration of right-wing groups against reporters. Journalists ‘ organizations are sounding the Alarm.
Protesters of the right-wing scene in front of a police cordon in Chemnitz on 27. August
Sunday evening, a street in Köthen, Saxony-Anhalt: Marcus Engert speaks in his phone’s camera, his Shirt is torn at the Sleeves. He was recognized and around been pushed, says the Journalist, in the small town to report on a Demonstration, after a 22-year-old German was killed after a dispute with two Afghans. The online medium “Buzzfeed” tweet the Video with the announcement, reporting will now be cancelled, it was for journalists “in the dark, too dangerous”.
Also the “taz”-editor Martin Kaul is on this evening in Köthen. Via live stream, he reported on the meeting and the fire speech of the Ex-NPD member David Köckert. Also Kaul is according to own data the target of Attacks by the protesters. The police got him out of the Situation, he said later on Twitter.
Just over a week it arrived at rallies in Chemnitz to Attacks against journalists. In the social networks of Videos, in which reporters parts of your equipment from the Hand-beaten, several Ads have been submitted, the German journalists Association (DJV) spoke of the “violent excesses”. The non-governmental organization reporters without borders (RWB) after the riots, the number of violent attacks against journalists in Germany will exceed this year the last two years. You’ll pull up the messages documented at the end of the year under review, “the high number of eye-witness can, however, report a significant increase in the confirmed Assaults to be expected”, – stated in the last Friday published message.
“These dynamics do not exist in other countries”
In the case of the protests in Chemnitz, a media enemy of the prevailing climate, “as we have experienced it since the beginning of the Pegida movement in 2015,” will ROG-Board spokesman Michael Rediske quoted in the statement. Striking only the quantitative increase in hostility was not. “What is particularly worrying is that in the demonstrations of the Right in Germany recently, increasingly large groups of people to journalists to be targeted, collective insult and harass. These dynamics, it is not,” says Rediske exist in other countries.
The assessment that the recent hostility bring a new level of quality, shares DJV spokesman Hendrik Zörner. “The crucial factor in the events in Chemnitz and now, apparently, in Köthen is that journalists are deliberately targeted. We have the impression that in right-wing circles, the strategy of rail breaks, the journalists that are reporting during demonstrations, and violence against them. This is not a spontaneous outburst, but rather a targeted, internationally approved procedure.”
With the protection of people to the Demo
Although he had no evidence that the attacks were coordinated or pre-planned about the Internet. But: “We have known for years that the right-wing scene is quite networks, the journalists on the case.” In the scene, information about journalists and demonstrations reporters filmed and photographed would be collected, as reporters reported, was not an isolated case.
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The danger that the violence against journalists, freedom of the press is endangered, is “quite real”, Zörner convinced. “There are already first media, the no longer send their people there. Other media bodies, journalists ‘ protection, so they go to the demonstrations. This is clearly a limitation of coverage.”
“Immigrant and Journalist, for some, too much”
A Reporter, the not has been going on for some time without security personnel at demonstrations, in which the extreme Right could participate, is the DW-Journalist Jaafar Abdul Karim. The native of Liberier has been addressed several times in recent years of meeting participants, both physically and verbally. “If I’m in crisis regions, on the go, I need no Security, in Berlin. The combination of immigrant and Journalist, for some, too much,” says Abdul Karim. There is also the risk that he would be detected of violent demonstrators insist, in the meantime. His reporting in Chemnitz, he had to cancel because he was traveling alone. “I had the feeling that I have to look around constantly. If you’re a Presenter for the television, don’t you see what happens behind your back.”
Also the DW-reporter Linda vierecke was in Chemnitz, on a day with security personnel on site. Although you can talk with many people well, whether they have been glad to the accompaniment: “Otherwise I would not have approached so close. I felt very safe.” However, the deployment of security personnel is also a question of money – and in order for a resource to which not every Journalist could use: “Which radio stations can afford, want to afford that?” so four corner.
The police and the media to push the black Peter
Both ROG as well as the DJV, the police have a duty to respond to the rising violence. It was now “challenged all the more to protect journalists and to allow them a trouble-free Work,” says Rediske. So should be in the training of the police in the future, “a focus in media law and dealing with journalists, and in practice taken to ensure that police implement this.” Similar Zörner. “We see huge deficits in the knowledge of the police officers, what are the basics of the press for the right.” Police officers need to be informed about the duties and rights of journalists. “That doesn’t seem to be at least in Saxony the case everywhere.”
Police officers and participants of a so-called Trauerzugs in Köthener downtown at the 9. September
“I don’t think that many journalists know where the border is” on the other hand says Oliver Malchow, Chairman of trade Union of police (GdP). “The expectation to have me as a Reporter, as close as possible to the action, and then the protection of the police to demand, but to be able to do anything because I my Yes, to be in the area of press freedom, boundless research, that I believe is the Problem.” The crucial question is: “at what point must a Journalist back when the going gets tough?”
Protection can not be guaranteed “in any Situation”
Although the police would be “in the Moment, where one will come,” do not sit idly by, but it was not due to the conflict situation and the danger of Escalation in the case of large assemblies, “in every Situation possible to ensure the necessary protection” or directly intervene – especially as it is occurring, “the group of the meeting participants in aggressive and criminal offences, accessible people”.
After all, journalists could inform many of the events at a point of contact with the police about the security situation and use this information to assess where it could become dangerous. Malchow encouraged journalists, the victim of a criminal Offence will come, “with evidence to the police and to bring the behaviour to display”. A rapid contact with the police after an attack also calls for Zörner: “Since then has really the personal interest of the journalist to take precedence over the timeliness of the reporting.”
In Köthen, the AfD had announced for Monday evening, a further so-called funeral March. Also a DW-report team was spot on. Due to the alleged Assault of Sunday and of the events in Chemnitz, the journalists were accompanied by a protection of persons. They were not reasons, been required to report on their private Twitter accounts.