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Arrests after protests against the corona policy in Bautzen (end of December 2021)
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In view of increasingly aggressive protests against the Corona measures, the East German members of the FDP parliamentary group are calling for better coordination between the security authorities.
This emerges from a strategy paper that was written by the head of the Eastern regional group, Hagen Reinhold, and is available to SPIEGEL.
Internet bubbles and chats were used to mobilize people in protest storms, and this also happens across countries, the paper says.
"The state offices for the protection of the constitution must create their own unit for better networking, faster exchange and a specialized police force that can act at short notice."
The Telegram communication service, for example, is explicitly mentioned, through which parts of the lateral thinker scene organize themselves and also call for violence.
"Should Telegram fail to react to the European and German legal situation, our security policy will increasingly begin in the chat groups in the future," writes the Rostock FDP politician Reinhold.
Likewise, the vaccination campaign should be stepped up again in regions tired of vaccination, for example with buses that drive people to vaccination centers or the reactivation of meetinghouses where vaccination stations could be set up.
"Aim: A pulley effect to pick up as many people as possible and thus increase the pulling effect on people who refuse to be vaccinated."
The reasons given for refusing to vaccinate are an “urban-rural divide, a north-south divide, an educational divide”.
Reinhold warns: "Anyone who pushes all opponents into the radical corner and polarizes them also alienates the people who are still accessible and does injustice to anyone who acts responsibly."
Recently, there were repeated clashes during the demonstrations against the Corona measures, for example police officers and journalists were attacked in Rostock.
Demonstrations are expected again on Monday in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's capital.
The security authorities had recently warned of the increasing radicalization of the protests.
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