Do the police and judiciary apply different standards to right-wing extremists and Islamists? The former are checked, the latter are simply allowed to go about their business.
You almost regularly see so-called search tents in front of neo-Nazi demonstrations.
► Like in Dortmund, for example, a temporary stronghold of right-wing extremists. Police Commissioner Gregor Lange declared in 2018 at a far-right demonstration under the slogan “Europe awake” that “violent enemies of the constitution don’t stand a chance” in the social-democratic stronghold of Dortmund.
Before the neo-Nazis were allowed onto the site of the rally, they were searched in two tents and their personal details were checked. The police chief justified this by stating that the participants had to be checked for weapons and anti-constitutional symbols. This was a requirement for the authorisation of the demonstration.
The police applied for these restrictions and the courts authorised them. Although the Federal Constitutional Court had already ruled in 2010 that police officers were no longer allowed to search protesters without clear suspicion.
Even then, the Berlin police did not consider this to be a problem, saying that there was no need to change previous practice and that they had previously only carried out “preliminary checks on the basis of a concrete suspicion of danger”.
► At a large neo-Nazi demonstration in Berlin, the participants were led into specially erected tents where they were extensively searched. The conditions were also set by the assembly authorities there.
There were no controls at the Islamist march in Hamburg, the police were only on the sidelines in case there were riots – as was the case six months ago at the same location
But now that well over 1,000 aggressive Islamists have marched in Hamburg, all this is no longer supposed to apply?
The rally took place on Steindamm of all places. It was only six months ago that 500 Islamists, presumably from the “Muslim interaktiv” group, the current demo organisers, brutally attacked police officers with stones, bottles and batons.
However, this is allegedly not enough to ban a demonstration of violent Islamists.
►Police spokeswoman Sandra Levgrün told the tabloid BILD: “There must be actual evidence that there will be violent riots during the rally.” Suspicion alone is not sufficient for a ban.
The police spokeswoman went on to say that the call for a caliphate was not a criminal offence. There had been strict conditions, e.g. no terror propaganda, no hate speech, no violence. The Islamists remained peaceful.
But were the radical extremists at least registered with personal details, as is usual with right-wing extremist demonstrations?
Levgrün: “Some of the participants are known to the police from previous demonstrations. But no 1250 identities were taken.” This is because: “A legal basis is required for both identification and videography.”
The police quite naturally always find this legal basis for right-wing extremists. Strangely enough, however, they do not with Islamists.
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