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"Dirty Deal": Not a Real Racism Study? Outrage after Scholz's advance

2020-10-21T10:40:19.943Z


Who is "buckled"? Horst Seehofer has now agreed to a police study - but Olaf Scholz's supposed breakthrough horrifies the opposition.


Who is "buckled"?

Horst Seehofer has now agreed to a police study - but Olaf Scholz's supposed breakthrough horrifies the opposition.

  • After months of wrangling, a police study should come - SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz announced the news.

  • But the supposed success throws the Social Democrats into problems: There is great criticism from the opposition and on the Internet.

  • Points of criticism are the assumed direction of the study and a possible horse-trading: Apparently the SPD wants to give in to the "state Trojan".

Berlin

- For months,

Horst Seehofer

(CSU) had resisted a

study on racism in the police

.

Now, surprisingly, the turning point came.

But the outrage is great among various groups - opposition parties from the

AfD

to the

Left

expressed criticism on Tuesday

.

The latter, like the

FDP, expressed

a bad suspicion: The SPD had promised the Union the “state trojan” in a kind of horse-trading scheme - and did not even receive a

racism survey

worthy of the name.

Police study: Seehofer gives in - but the result plunges the SPD into problems with the electorate

This was preceded by an announcement by Finance Minister and

SPD candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz

.

Even before Seehofer he had made the curriculum public in a podcast.

"We're still thinking about what to call them," the Vice Chancellor told

WDR

on Monday

.

Seehofer himself emphasized that he had not given in.

There will be no study "directed against the police with allegations and allegations," he said on Tuesday.

In fact, according to an

internal paper,

the goal is

to analyze

the

relationship between state and society

and the changed social framework.

"This also includes violence and hatred against police officers," it said.

In a separate paper, Seehofer also wants to have “Racism as a general social phenomenon” examined.

Horse-trading for Police Study?

The SPD apparently makes concessions to the protection of the constitution

The fact that Seehofer has now reached a

compromise with the SPD *

in terms of the study

may also have something to do

with the

fact that his ministry finally wants to make progress on some legislative proposals that have been blocked by the coalition partner.

According to reports, the Union and the SPD have now

come to an agreement on

the amendment

to

the constitutional protection law

that

has been planned for a long time

.

The Federal

Office for the Protection of the

Constitution

, the

Federal Intelligence Service

and the

Military

Counter-

Intelligence Service

should be able to play suspicious

Trojans on mobile phones

in order to record messages and calls via apps like

WhatsApp

.

SPD leader Saskia Esken

- who

annoyed

the

interior ministry

in the summer

by speaking of “latent racism” to the German police - was satisfied.

And careful in the choice of words.

The

study

will show "whether there are structures in the daily work of the security authorities that favor the emergence of racist thought patterns," she explained to the

Stuttgarter Nachrichten

.

In addition, the citizens' trust in the police will be strengthened, "which they rightly enjoy".

There

was, however, great astonishment and anger among

the

opposition

.

Seehofer and the police study: Left accuses SPD of “dirty deal” - Liberals see civil rights at risk

Left parliamentary director Jan Korte

described the two agreements on the police study and the powers of the secret service as a "dirty deal that is at the expense of the people's civil liberties".

Party deputy Martina Renner also

criticized the study plans: “There is no scientific study on racism in the police.

There will be documentation on the subjective experiences of police officers in their everyday work, ”she tweeted - as a bonus there are

“ state trojans ”for the secret services

.

The

FDP internal politician Benjamin Strasser

reprimanded that the SPD buckled and nodded off "Seehofer's surveillance fantasies".

“The Groko does not protect civil rights!” He judged.

With the former

member of the Bundestag Jörg Tauss

, an ex-SPD man also brought bitter criticism.

"Bit by bit in the surveillance state," wrote Tauss in a tweet.

The

hashtag “#NieMehrSPD”

trended on the short message service on Tuesday evening

.

The Greens had recently been given a similar slogan - albeit for different reasons.

The

publicist Max Czollek

saw in the study plans a clear topic misconduct, as he also made clear on Twitter.

The first

press reactions

to the plans were surprisingly diverse.

"The study that has now been announced is a farce for every person who has experienced racially motivated police violence in Germany," judged the

Aachener Zeitung

.

“The SPD prevailed.

She knows the majority of Germans behind her, ”said the

Mitteldeutsche Zeitung

from Halle an der Saale in its comment.

The study we are calling for = how widespread is racism in the police force?



The study we get = what experience of hatred and violence do police officers actually have?



DO I ASK IF YOU WANT TO FUCK US?! Https: //t.co/MdrJfCLaVl

- max czollek (@rubenmcloop) October 20, 2020

The mood for the study was also negative in the

AfD

.

The right-wing populists' reasoning was different, however: They accused Seehofer of having given in

to the SPD

.

For weeks, the interior minister had assured that there would be no racism study,

party leader Tino Chrupalla said

.

"Now, under pressure from Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz, he gives in." (

Fn / AFP / dpa

) *

Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network

.

Source: merkur

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