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One of the demonstrations against the federal government's corona measures in government districts
Photo: Christian Thiel / imago images / Christian Thiel
During the debate on the new regulation of the Infection Protection Act, the AfD is said to have smuggled several non-parliamentarians into the Reichstag building.
These are said to have harassed MPs in the corridors, as several parliamentarians reported.
Now the Bundestag's Council of Elders is dealing with the suspicion of whether and how the right-wing troublemakers got into the Reichstag building on Wednesday.
"If it turns out that AfD MPs have given people access to the Reichstag who specifically exerted pressure on MPs or prevented them from fulfilling their mandate obligations, then that must have consequences," said the First Parliamentary Managing Director of the FDP faction, Marco Buschmann, the dpa news agency.
“That would be grossly unparliamentary.
We will investigate the matter in any case in the council of elders. "
The council of elders meets that afternoon.
The first parliamentary manager of the AfD parliamentary group, Bernd Baumann, said on Wednesday evening that his group had no evidence that AfD members had smuggled unauthorized persons into the Bundestag.
"If guests who are regularly registered by individual members and who have been checked by the Bundestag violate the house rules, we will investigate these allegations."
Activists streamed live alongside AfD employees
A video spread on the internet shows, among other things, how a woman economics minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) films and accuses him of unscrupulousness.
According to a report by the editorial network Germany, an AfD member confirmed that a woman on his list was invited to the meeting.
It should be about the woman who harassed and insulted Altmaier.
Other activists can also be seen in videos that show them in AfD offices or accompanied by AfD employees.
“It is monstrous!
We will defend our democracy and the parliament against enemies of democracy «, wrote the first parliamentary manager of the Green parliamentary group, Britta Haßelmann, on Twitter.
The incidents would have to "be dealt with immediately in the parliamentary bodies."
Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) should present a comprehensive status report at the meeting of the Council of Elders.
On Wednesday, the Bundestag and Bundesrat paved the way for the changes planned by the coalition in the Infection Protection Act.
Thousands of people protested in parallel in the government district.
The Berlin police used water cannons for the first time in years - but without a sharp jet, but only in spray mode.
On the fringes of the protests, there were isolated scuffles between police officers and demonstrators.
"The state must show who has the monopoly of force"
Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht defended the use of the water cannons.
The SPD politician told the newspapers of the Funke media group that if requirements such as mask requirements or keeping your distance were deliberately disregarded, the meeting would have to be dissolved.
“The state has to show who has the monopoly of violence in this country.
It cannot be that the state resigns itself when many demonstrators come to deliberately violate the rules. "
According to the police, a total of 365 people were temporarily arrested.
Two people were judged to see whether they would come into custody.
According to police, ten officers had reported injured by the evening.
The situation only eased in the late afternoon.
Hundreds of people demonstrated against the law in front of Bellevue Palace, the official residence of the Federal President, that evening.
There had been no further clashes between demonstrators and police officers on Thursday night.
"Everything is quiet," said a police spokesman early Thursday morning in Berlin.
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