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New Year's Eve 2022 in Berlin
Photo: Julius Christian Schreiner / dpa
The turn of the year in the capital is probably a date that the police and fire brigade mark in fire red in their calendars.
Again this year, videos from some parts of Berlin show massive attacks on rescue workers.
The effects are now occupying the entire Federal Republic.
According to video footage, many of the perpetrators included young men with a migration background.
From this, an all too familiar debate unfolds.
On the right often sheer racism.
Refugees, people with a migration background or simply foreigners are randomly identified as perpetrators.
Phenotypes and Merkel's migration policy are prominently listed as reasons.
It's shoddy because it caters to cheap resentments without offering even the semblance of a solution.
On the left, on the other hand, there is an embarrassed silence.
Paralyzed, many left-wing politicians avoid citing the migrant background of the possible perpetrators.
Some young men who were socialized in cultures that are even more patriarchal than the majority cultures in Germany have a problem with violence.
They don't take our rule of law seriously.
you despise him.
The same could be said of "bio-German" neo-Nazis or some fraternity members.
But on New Year's Eve in Berlin, it was more boys from Muslim cultural areas who made a riot.
Saying this is not forbidden, it is necessary.
Unfortunately, it is often only conservative politicians who use it to hunt for votes on the far right.
SPD general secretary Kevin Kühnert warned some time ago that the left would become speechless when it came to Islamism.
Such speechlessness is now evident in relation to New Year's Eve, unfortunately not for the first time.
Hannelore Kraft was popular as Prime Minister in North Rhine-Westphalia until the attacks on the Cologne Cathedral Square on New Year's Eve 2015.
The whole world saw the problem, but Kraft found it difficult to voice it.
A few months later she lost the state election.
Berlin's governing mayor, Franziska Giffey, who once took office as Neukölln's sheriff, should not repeat this mistake.
I am Social Democrat, Muslim, Bosnian socialized.
Many of the guys from Neukölln are closer to me than to the white majority society.
Your language, the mutual contact is not alien to me.
The strong man is all that matters.
I grew up in a similar environment.
My brother's childhood friends ended up in prison after far too long criminal trials.
We lost her.
A left-wing government would have to try everything to ensure public safety.
The shopkeepers in Neukölln also want to live in peace and quiet.
They rightly expect their state to crack down.
The laws already exist.
What is lacking is a sufficiently effective judiciary.
In Berlin in particular, public prosecutors are reporting overhauls.
You walk on your gums.
Here left-wing government policy is needed that thinks longer term than the next headline.
That, along with the burqa ban and the debate on Islam, can be left to the conservatives.
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However, criminal justice is not enough.
There must also be real opportunities for integration into mainstream society.
The state does not adequately fulfill this obligation either.
While the grandparent generation was content with work and income, the second and third generations need a renewed promise of advancement and genuine respect.
We have to see them as part of Germany, as our sons, that's the only way we can reach them.
Let's not think that they are deaf participants in our society.
Hanau, the NSU and NSU 2.0 have not left them untouched.
A left-wing concept of internal security must be characterized by including migrant perspectives.
In police work, when people with a migration background become victims of racism.
But also if they are on the side of the perpetrators.
