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Police cars burn out in front of the G7 summit: Munich's mayor pissed off - clear measures announced

2022-06-23T03:18:33.217Z


Police cars burn out in front of the G7 summit: Munich's mayor pissed off - clear measures announced Created: 06/23/2022, 04:58 am By: Katharina Haase, Lukas Schierlinger Shortly before the G7 summit at Schloss Elmau, eight police cars burned out in Munich. Details of the security concept followed at a press conference. Mayor Reiter condemns attack on emergency services: The SPD politician has


Police cars burn out in front of the G7 summit: Munich's mayor pissed off - clear measures announced

Created: 06/23/2022, 04:58 am

By: Katharina Haase, Lukas Schierlinger

Shortly before the G7 summit at Schloss Elmau, eight police cars burned out in Munich.

Details of the security concept followed at a press conference.

  • Mayor

    Reiter

    condemns

    attack

    on emergency services: The SPD politician has announced a "high police presence" in Munich for the coming days.

  • Police cars

    burn in front of the

    G7 summit

    : a few days before the heads of state visited Schloss Elmau, unknown persons set fire to eight emergency vehicles.

  • This

    news ticker

    for the

    G7 summit

    is constantly updated.

Update June 22, 3:17 p.m .:

Police cars burn in front of the G7 summit.

Not the only attacks related to the meeting at Elmau Castle?

Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) warns of "real dangers", but sees the forces as a whole well prepared.

Mayor Reiter condemns attack on emergency services: "High police presence" announced in Munich

Update June 22, 1:43 p.m .:

After the arson attack on the police buses, Munich’s Mayor Dieter Reiter strongly condemned the act.

In an interview with the radio station

Gong 96.3

, he said verbatim: "This is unacceptable - it can only be condemned and it is the last thing we need in our democracy for vehicles to burn."

I have no sympathy for it at all.”

Despite the incident, Reiter reiterated that there shouldn't be any more riot scenes like the one at the 2017 G20 summit in Hamburg.

With a "high police presence" they want to prevent this in the state capital, according to the SPD politician.

Update June 22, 12:38 p.m .:

The police are very aware that the G7 summit is in the focus of world public opinion, explains Hauser.

The aim is to enable peaceful protest and to “pick out” activists willing to use violence.

With this assessment we close our coverage of this press conference.

Police chief in front of the G7 demo in Munich: emergency services prepare for "violent extremists"

Update June 22, 12:35 p.m .:

Around 20,000 participants are expected at the big rally on Saturday in Munich: “We are prepared that there could also be violent extremists.” According to Hauser, it is assumed that a very large part will behave peacefully.

The mobilization for various meetings, which takes place primarily via social media, is observed very closely.

Update June 22, 12:22 p.m .:

Hauser also has detailed information on no-fly zones and closed roads and hiking trails.

The police official asks tourists to obtain "up-to-date" information and to use special border crossings.

When the state guests arrive (planned with helicopters), there may be adjustments due to the weather, which would then result in closures.

"Of course I have to refer to that," says Hauser.

Temporary impairments for residents cannot be ruled out anyway.

Manfred Hauser, police chief of Oberbayern Süd, swears by busy days.

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Update June 22, 12:11 p.m .:

Police President Manfred Hauser is now speaking: “We want to be as transparent as possible”.

He now gives an overview of the police operational concept for the G7 summit, which he describes as a "political event that has received worldwide attention".

The tasks for the emergency services have also become much more complex as a result of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine.

Burnt out police cars in Munich: "Didn't surprise us"

Hauser now turns his attention to the alleged arson in Munich: "We condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

Thank goodness no one was hurt.

I am convinced that the Munich colleagues will do everything to quickly identify those responsible.

The incident did not surprise us.”

We condemn that in the strongest possible terms.

Thank goodness no one was hurt.

Police President Manfred Hauser on the arson in Munich

The operational concept from 2015 was used during the preparations, but some adjustments were also made with reference to current developments.

"Together to success" is the motto of the forces involved.

District administrator on the security concept in Elmau: "I wish that it will be a peaceful summit again"

Update June 22, 12:08 p.m .:

So far, there have been 17 registered demonstrations in connection with the G7 summit, explains District Administrator Speer.

"We are burdened with a lot of tasks, the normal work in the district office has to go on." That's why a vacation ban was imposed.

The Free Voters politician has not yet commented on the case of the burning police cars in Munich.

"I hope that it will be a peaceful summit again," says Speer.

Update June 22, 12:02 p.m .:

The press conference begins, District Administrator Speer opens: "For our district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the choice of the venue is of course a great honor." In 2015, you obviously did some things right.

In 2022, however, some things will be different.

"We had no war, no passion plays and no corona crisis."

Press conference on the G7 security concept live: district administrator talks about preparations

Despite these serious cuts, he believes that the G7 summit will be carried out reliably, says Speer.

The district administrator now gives some details about the preparations, such as the choice of the operations center.

The voluntary employees are also very well positioned in 2022, "this has also been shown in the past disasters in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district".

Update June 22, 11:41 a.m.:

Around 12 p.m., Garmisch-Partenkirchen District Administrator Anton Speer (free voters) and Manfred Hauser, President of the Police Headquarters Oberbayern Süd, provide information about the security concept and the police preparations for the G7 operation.

The burning police cars in Munich will probably also be an issue.

We accompany the statements in our news ticker.

After police cars burn in Munich – spokesman: “Will flow into operational tactics”

Update June 22, 10:47 a.m .:

After the fire in eight police cars in Munich shortly before the G7 summit, the police are also investigating in the left-wing extremist spectrum.

As the spokesman for the Munich police, Andreas Franken, told the

German Press Agency (dpa)

, there are also investigations in other directions.

So far, however, there are no suspects.

Shortly before the G7 summit, eight police cars burned out in Munich.

© Thomas Gaulke

"Of course we assume that this is a fire offense related to the G7 meeting, since the forces for this operation were here in Munich." Franken continued: "We will use this incident to our to sensitize emergency workers.

And that will of course be incorporated into our police deployment tactics.” 

Activist spokesman distances himself: Police car fire condemned before G7 summit

Update June 22, 8:42 a.m .:

First reaction to the alleged arson in Munich: Franz Haslbeck from the protest alliance “Stop G7 Elmau” explicitly distanced himself from the alleged arson attack.

He assumes that no organization from the alliance was involved, he told the German Press Agency.

Haslbeck emphasized that "Stop G7 Elmau" stands for peaceful protest.

It is not the first incident related to the meeting at Schloss Elmau, which begins on Monday and for which the highest security precautions have already been taken.

On Tuesday, some dangerous manipulations of power distribution boxes became known within the security area around the conference venue.

Police cars burn in front of the G7 summit: large-scale operation in Munich

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Munich

– Shortly before the start of the G7 summit at Schloss Elmau, eight police cars went up in flames in Munich.

Several forces from the police and fire brigade then moved out around 3 a.m.

Even a helicopter was on duty.

A good one and a half hours later, the extinguishing work in the elevated road could be completed.

The team buses of the federal riot police were all in front of a hotel on an elevated street on Munich's Gasteig in the Haidhausen district early on Wednesday morning.

The hotel is currently hosting emergency services for the G7 summit, as a spokesman for the Munich police told the German Press Agency.

Investigators suspected arson.

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Arson shortly before G7 summit?

Eight police cars burned down in Munich

Shortly after becoming known, the police searched for possible perpetrators with a helicopter, among other things, but were initially unsuccessful, as the spokesman said.

Investigators examined the completely burned-out police van.

The officials estimated the damage in the six-digit range.

Nobody got hurt.

The G7 summit is planned for June 26-28 at Schloss Elmau at the foot of the Wetterstein Mountains near Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

The heads of state and government of the USA, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Canada will meet under the leadership of Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD).

The heads of state will have their first contact with the host country, Germany, at Munich Airport.

Preparations are already in full swing there.

kah/dpa

You can find more current news about the 2022 summit at Merkur.de/G7-Gipfel Elmau

Source: merkur

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