Saxony

Police defends use in Clausnitz

After refugees in Saxony, by a xenophobic Mob were afflicted, and the growing criticism of the police. A Video showing how brutal police were. The responsible wise the allegations.

Have police officers in their use prior to a Refugee in the Saxon Clausnitz, a place near the Czech border in East Germany, is not appropriate behavior? The Chemnitz police chief Uwe Reißmann justified the actions of the security forces. In front of journalists, he explained, in three refugees is the use of the “easy direct coercion” were necessary. Refugees would have made the Bus out provocative Gestures. “From my point of view there are for the actions of the police without any consequences,” said the chief of police.

In the small Erzgebirgsort had on Thursday evening about 100 xenophobic protesters tried, the arrival of a bus using the first inhabitants for a new Flüchtlingseinrichtung to prevent. They blocked the way and pöbelten the refugees with slogans such as “We are the people”. The documented first Video doing the Internet rounds today. A second shows how a police officer a Flüchtlingsjungen rabidly grabs, to find him in the hotel. Has been growing nationwide, the criticism of the behavior of the police.

“Absolute Overload of the police”

So want to the Green the topic in the interior Committee of the Bundestag on the agenda. Your group had the top of the Federal police and the leadership of the regional task forces for the next meeting of the Committee invited to Berlin, said the Green party member of Parliament and Chairwoman of the Committee, Irene Mihalic. “The Situation of how you on the Videos, also reveals a absolute Strain on the police,” said Mihalic. The session should also include representatives of the Verfassungsschutzes be invited. It must be clarified, “whether and how the right-wing extremist scene for this Hassdemonstration has mobilised”.

Tailwind gets Mihalic of Katrin Göring-Eckardt, leader of the Greens in the Bundestag, even conservative politicians such as CSU-Chef Horst Seehofer for the xenophobic protests are partly responsible: “The Bad thing is that this Mob in every Manifestation of Horst Seehofer and co. encouraged. The irresponsible scaremongering of individual Unionspolitikern creates the conditions with which they then warn”, said Göring-Eckardt.

A Video showing how aggressive the Mob against the refugees was going on

Allegations also affected refugees

Meanwhile, rise refugees, even serious allegations against the police, such as the German press Agency announced. So should police officers, according to a statement of affected Geflüchteter against several of them, physical compulsion applied. A policeman had a woman’s arms, turned on my back and forcibly from the Bus fetched, tell the refugees.

Shortly after the incidents had a Saxony’s interior Minister Markus Ulbig (CDU), the Blockade of the bus by a measurements-harassing crowd and the hostility against the refugees sharply criticizes. It was a “deeply shameful, as here with people are haunted,” he explained. Instead of trying to look into the Situation of the refugees to move, some were people “with heavy-handed slogans” against the court seeking protection to people.

Ulbig promised enlightenment on the behaviour of the police by the Saxon Ministry of the interior. In total, there were 30 policemen on duty.

vk/sti/se (afp, dpa, epd)