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
.
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
) *
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