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Corona demo in Munich escalates, then the proposal causes a stir: "Use pepper spray and batons"

2021-12-23T10:19:48.841Z


Corona demo in Munich escalates, then the proposal causes a stir: "Use pepper spray and batons" Created: 12/23/2021 Updated: 12/23/2021 11:08 AM From: Verena Möckl The Green politician Saskia Weishaupt has spoken out on Twitter for tougher action by the police against lateral thinkers. However, the demand is heavily criticized. Munich - In the Bavarian capital, around 5000 people gathered on W


Corona demo in Munich escalates, then the proposal causes a stir: "Use pepper spray and batons"

Created: 12/23/2021 Updated: 12/23/2021 11:08 AM

From: Verena Möckl

The Green politician Saskia Weishaupt has spoken out on Twitter for tougher action by the police against lateral thinkers.

However, the demand is heavily criticized.

Munich - In the Bavarian capital, around 5000 people gathered on Wednesday evening to demonstrate against the Corona measures.

Most of the demonstrators were on Ludwigstrasse between Siegestor and Altstadtring.

According to the police, the mood in the unauthorized protest march was aggressive.

Sometimes there were violent clashes between the police and protesters, in which the police used baton and pepper spray.

"Pepper spray and batons": Green politician calls for tougher measures against lateral thinkers

Saskia Weishaupt, a member of the Bundestag for the Green Party, caused a stir with statements about the use of batons on anti-coronademos.

© Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Bundestag, Kaminski usage under CC BY-ND 3.0 DE

Saskia Weishaupt, a member of the Bundestag for the Green Party, commented on the incidents on Wednesday evening on Twitter.

The 28-year-old called for tougher action against lateral thinkers.

“The tactic of the lateral thinkers: inside it is to fight your way down the road bit by bit.

The police must act and, in case of doubt, use pepper spray and batons.

We can't leave a millimeter to them! "

“I'm horrified!”: The tweet from the Green politician met with heavy criticism - also from the police

For this statement, however, the young politician on Twitter encountered severe criticism on the Internet.

"What are your values?

What is your image of man?

I'm horrified! ”Wrote a user on Twitter.

Another wrote "They defame, generalize and call for violence."

 I dread when you have responsibility. 

Manuel Ostermann (German Police Union)

Police unionist Manuel Ostermann was critical of Weishaupt's tweet.

© Screenshot Instagram / @manuel_ostermann

The Deputy Federal Chairman of the German Police Union (DPolG) Manuel Ostermann replied to Weishaupt's tweet that the police did not have to act according to Weishaupt's recommendations, but according to legal requirements.

“I hate when you have responsibility.

Arm yourself rhetorically.

It's about time. "

"Possibly one should also use live ammunition ... only a dead unconventional thinker is a good unconventional thinker ... do you actually realize that you have completely said goodbye to democratic discourse?" Wrote the journalist Milena Preradovic under Weishaupt's tweet.

"#Schlagstocksaskia": Twitter users outraged by the double standards of the Green politician

Twitter users throw her under the hashtag "#Schlagstocksaskia" double standards on the police action.

Three years ago, Weishaupt, who at the time was still the spokeswoman for the Bavarian Green Youth, was critical of the Police Task Act.

Corona protest march in Munich city center: Violent attacks on the police and media representatives

According to the police, more than 500 workers and a helicopter were in action at the Corona protest march on Wednesday evening. In addition to confrontations with police officers, there were also attacks on a media representative. The alleged perpetrator and eleven people were arrested in total. 14 crimes were reported, such as the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations. At a corona demonstration in the Upper Palatinate last week, a woman was reported because she was wearing a sign with the forbidden sign of a victory rune, which is usually used to symbolize the SS.

The Corona demonstration was originally planned with 5000 participants under the motto “For a non-discriminatory society without mandatory vaccination”.

When the organizer learned that the district administration department only wanted to allow a stationary event on Theresienwiese with a maximum of 2,000 people, he canceled the demonstration.

Nevertheless, thousands of people gathered in downtown Munich.

Chaotic scenes played out around Munich's university district on Ludwigstrasse.

Several hundred people met there to "go for a walk".

Source: merkur

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