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Willingness to use violence is increasing: Attacks on vaccination centers are increasing - "Bavaria is the sad leader"

2021-10-11T13:44:35.996Z


Graffiti, damage to property and even bodily harm: crimes in connection with the corona pandemic and vaccination centers are increasing nationwide.


Graffiti, damage to property and even bodily harm: crimes in connection with the corona pandemic and vaccination centers are increasing nationwide.

Munich - The number of criminal offenses related to Corona * has risen sharply in the past nine months: since the vaccination campaign began, almost all federal states have registered attacks on vaccination centers and criminal offenses during vaccination campaigns.

At a vaccination center in Saarland, for example, unknown perpetrators changed the word “vaccination center” to the word “poison center”.

Corona deniers and opponents of vaccination: Bavaria is at the forefront of criminal offenses in relation to vaccination centers

As

BR24

reported, there have been a total of 56 crimes in connection with vaccination centers in Bavaria since December 2020, according to the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior.

Including 22 property damage and 16 attempted and completed thefts.

In addition, there are other criminal offenses and attacks that are not associated with the vaccination, but instead with the mask requirement or similar corona issues.

One of them was the death of a 20-year-old cashier in a gas station in Idar-Oberstein, who was shot by a customer just because he had asked him about the current mask requirement.

According to information from

Nordbayern.de

The State Criminal Police Office recorded a further 922 criminal offenses this year alone, all of which were in the context of the corona pandemic.

51 cases were violent crimes.

According to Katharina Schulze, parliamentary group leader and domestic political spokeswoman for the Greens * in the Bavarian state parliament, these numbers - an average of over a hundred criminal offenses per month - are “a shocking amount”.

With 56 crimes against vaccination centers, Bavaria is also, according to Schulze, "the sad leader in a national comparison".

Corona protests: The Greens warn of radicalization

"Since May 2020 at least 72 corona protest meetings have taken place throughout Bavaria, in which right-wing extremists or Reich citizens have participated or which have been registered and directed by them", explains Katharina Schulze on the website of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Bavarian state parliament .

“Every democrat has to make it clear who he or she is going to take to the streets with.

There is clearly a radicalization taking place here, which is of great concern to us, ”continues Schulze in her letter.

Monitoring protest movements

According to Schulze, the Greens in the Landtag had already drawn attention to the potential dangers of corona conspiracy theories in autumn 2020 and requested the state government in an application to take measures at the state level. Together with Cemal Bozoglu, also a member of the Greens, she wrote a written question to the state government in April on the subject of "Anti-democratic tendencies in the protest movement against the measures to contain the corona pandemic". An observation of parts of the movement and their connections to right-wing extremists and Reich citizens by the security authorities was long overdue, according to Schulze. However, in her opinion, the current observation does not go far enough.

Corona deniers make common cause with anti-democratic groups

The authorities' findings so far would show that members of corona denier movements were increasingly mixing with anti-democratic groups. However, the Bavarian security authorities did not have a sufficient overview of the criminal and violent acts in the context of the Corona protests. Also, the participants at such gatherings and protests would again and again violate distance regulations or the mask requirement. Therefore, according to the parliamentary group chairman, effective police deployment concepts that are adapted to the situation are needed, which can enforce the infection protection requirements and protect the police in their task. "As early as May 2020 we asked for this in an urgency motion, it is an indictment,that such scenes repeat themselves regularly after a year of pandemic. These pictures are every time a slap in the face for all people who have been adhering to the restrictions to contain the virus for a year, "Schulze ends the message on the website of the Landtag Greens.

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