In the network #Pegizei trendet. To make a word game, the of the Saxon police, common cause with the right citizens ‘ movement Pegida. But what is it? An incident in Dresden has sparked a debate.
It is by far, in Saxony, far more than a controversial police operation, in which a camera team of the public broadcaster ZDF of police officers was detained. The allegation, whether the Saxon police by protesters of the right-wing Pegida-movement exploit. The word added in the Hashtag #Pegizei, the trendet currently, in the case of Twitter, brings this accusation.
Saxony’s Prime Minister can’t laugh about #Pegizei
The trigger for the debate was that a protester on the sidelines of an event the right-wing Pegida movement accused a camera Team to film him and you harassed then verbally. Officials of the Saxon police set a Journalist and a camera team, then around 45 minutes. The incident is variously rendered.
This protester from the ranks of the Pegida movement harassed journalists verbally. The man is an employee of the land office of criminal investigation
On Wednesday, it turned out that the man with Germany-was a slouch hat on the head of an employee of the land office of criminal investigation in Saxony. He was in private at the rally. According to the newspaper “The world” works, the Question as certified public accountant and is also involved in court processes. The Saxon Ministry of the interior would not comment on the identity of the man further. The question of whether there are entanglements between the Pegida movement and the Saxon authorities, therefore, even louder.
FDP Vice-chief Wolfgang Kubicki called for disciplinary proceedings against the man. And also the Federal Minister of justice Katarina Barley (SPD) demanded a speedy and full investigation and the Association of this with a warning: “The events in Saxony are really a cause for concern and must be urgently and comprehensively by the authorities of Saxony informed,” said the SPD politician of the news Agency dpa.
The Saxon Prime Minister, Michael Kretschmer, responded to the criticism of the workup, perch and took the Saxon officials again. “The reappraisal of the police, the regularity of the use of shows,” tweeted Kretschmer. And added: He was a staunch defender of the freedom of the press and of the factual Conflict. “The Hashtag ‘Pegizei’ I think is irresponsible.”
Lippmann: “The man with a hat has been discontinued”
Valentin Lippmann, member of the Landtag of the Green group in the Saxon Parliament, attended on Thursday the meeting of the interior Committee. There the incident had been discussed in detail, he said in an interview with DW. First insight: While the journalists were being held and the identity questioned, “the man with the hat”. The prevention of a danger, with the help of the police justified the Detention of the journalists, was at this time not a sound Argument. For Lippmann it looks, however, more then that the police officers involved “were unable to cope with the Situation”.
For the training of police important tasks, this would lead to the interior to find an expert. “We need in the Saxon police a more open dealing with errors and problems and a comprehensive political education offensive.” Receivables that are not provided for the first Time. In the 1980s, in West Germany there has been a similar debate. At that time, the situation was different: police officers were then in their spare time as a function of a carrier for the right-wing party “The Republicans”.
A long list of (right) abnormalities
Again and again it’s in the past few years, allegations of the Saxon police act to be negligent towards the right forces, in contrast with demonstrative hardness against left activists and refugees. A whole series of incidents can enumerate here.
In may 2016, it was announced that at least one of the Leipzig police officer maintained close contacts with the extreme right-wing and anti-Islam scene. Also, Refugees were targeted In the Saxon Clausnitz 2016 police officers tried in February to bring together a group of refugees from a Bus in a asylum accommodation. As the asylum seekers refused to get off, takes a police officer him in the chokehold. The Video triggers a nationwide debate on police violence.
In mid-September 2016 it comes in the Saxon town of Bautzen to violent clashes between a group of the extreme Right and a group of refugees. The parties of the extreme Right is called the Police chief “event stressed teenagers”, and is in Trouble. Bad memories, many also connect to the day of German unity in 2016 in Dresden, Germany, as a police officer Pegida protesters a “successful day” wishes. As it turns out later, is not the official from Saxony. The Image of the police of Saxony, a taint clung to in the face of these incidents yet.
Prime Minister Kretschmer has been behind in Saxony police
“Institutional racism”: Not with valid facts provable
Rafael Behr is a Professor of police Sciences at the police Academy in Hamburg and author of the book, “Cop Culture – The daily life of the monopoly on violence. Masculinity, patterns of action and culture in the police”. With a view to the current debate in Dresden, he expected a lot of Surprises, just in terms of the Details of the confrontation between police, demonstrators and journalists. In many Statements of the underlying charge with the swing arm at the Moment, there is the case of the Saxon police, the Problem of “institutional racism,” says the police expert in the DW. Bers answer to this is: “This debate lives so far from the presumptions and conclusions that are not at least prove empirically exhaustive.”
The numerous individual cases are still no valid basis, which would allow such blanket judgments. The police label the forces with a certain Label, help, also, any, clarified nothing, and would not contribute to the problem solution. “Among the policemen, the outrage triggers and produces a posture in which it comes to defense.”
Not only in Saxony the case: “police forces are always influenced by the specific population you are working.” What this means in the case of Saxony in concrete terms, we will find it out.
Dresden police President Horst Kretzschmar rejected allegations of obstruction of reporters and a cooperation of the police with Pegida protesters. Police spokesman Thomas Geither said the NDR media magazine Zapp, that some police may be sympathetic to officials with Pegida: “in the end the police is a cross-section of society. With us, there’s all the political currents.”
In the case of the General Prosecutor’s office in Dresden will now have a complaint against the police. On Friday there is a conversation between the ZDF reporters and the police. So it is guaranteed: to be continued.