Not only in Berlin there were incidents on New Year's Eve.
In the Freising district, the emergency services are now reacting with a video clip.
The title: "No violence against rescuers".
Freising
– When District Administrator Helmut Petz saw the pictures of New Year's Eve in Berlin, he only thought one thing: "Have they completely lost their mind now?" Because there were also attacks with firecrackers in the Freising district, more precisely in Hallbergmoos Rescue workers had come, invited Petz together with representatives of aid and rescue organizations to a press conference in the district office on Wednesday.
Their goal: to sensitize the citizens - among other things with a specially shot film clip of the Freising District Fire Inspection entitled "No violence against rescuers".
"Society is brutalizing"
Petz was still unable to really grasp what had happened in Berlin at the turn of the year.
“The rescue services are mostly volunteers, they have nothing to do with the state.
You attack those who want to help you.
That's almost auto-aggressive." His appeal was therefore basically a very simple one: "Just turn on your brain."
"It is the case that society is brutalized," said District Fire Councilor Manfred Danner.
What, in his opinion, is increasing significantly: "Verbal attacks and something like spitting." Danner is also concerned that increasing acts of aggression against aid and rescue workers could also lead to a problem with young people.
"I saw the pictures from Hallbergmoos, which could easily have been edited into a report about Berlin," says Danner.
Petz briefly explained what had happened there: While extinguishing a hedge that had caught fire, firefighters were thrown at them with firecrackers.
Despite the incident in Hallbergmoos, the head of the BRK rescue service in the district, Hubert Böck, emphasized: “Physical attacks in Bavaria against rescue workers are declining.
However, verbal attacks tend to increase again.” According to Böck, the reasons are clear: drugs, alcohol and exceptional psychological situations.
"You can see that now in carnival, that's the peak time for blood pressure for us," added Heinrich Märkl from the Johanniter Allershausen.
According to Märkl, verbal gaffes to rescue workers are not without, but rather like "caries", namely a constant pain that would cause many volunteers to quit.
He therefore wishes for a louder and more definite majority,
who opposes the aggressive minority.
What Märkl and Böck also noted: "There are always only two or three of us on the road and therefore often have to wait for people to clear the way for us.
This often takes a long time and is very distressing for rescuers.”
Video clip is to run as a trailer before movies
Danner therefore wants to send a clear signal against violence and for more awareness - also with a specially shot film clip that formulates exactly the topic "violence against rescuers".
"We deliberately didn't make the short film very brutal," explained Danner, also because it might be shown in cinemas as a trailer.
(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)
What the District Fire Councilor Danner and the rescue managers Hubert Böck and Heinrich Märkl wish for: "Violence against rescuers must have consequences." In criminal law, there is "enough potential for this," said Petz.
According to Danner, however, the problem is that emergency services do not report many incidents, such as insults.
Richard Lorenz
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