Music event dissolved: The police in Rhineland-Palatinate took action against a meeting of the right-wing scene on Saturday evening. (Symbolic image) © Torsten Silz/dpa/picture alliance
In Rhineland-Palatinate, the police have broken up a right-wing music event. 190 officers were deployed in the district of Altenkirchen.
Frankfurt/Koblenz – "Right-wing extremists cannot do what they want in Rhineland-Palatinate," Michael Ebeling (SPD) told Focus. The Minister of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate praises the deployment against the right: "We do not tolerate that enemies of the constitution strengthen their structures unhindered and spread their despicable ideas. The police consistently stop such goings-on."
Police stop right-wing music event in Rhineland-Palatinate: Several offices in action
On Saturday evening, 190 police officers broke up an event of the right-wing extremist scene in the district of Altenkirchen. 80 participants had gathered in a barbecue hut. The police established the identities and missed them reprimands, said the police headquarters in Koblenz on Sunday.
Numerous other departments had supported the operation "for security reasons". Rhineland-Palatinate is taking a clear stance against the right. "Music events of this kind serve to strengthen and consolidate right-wing extremist structures and to spread right-wing ideas," the police wrote in a press release.
Such events could further radicalize the participants, warns the press office. "The lyrics of right-wing extremist-influenced bands can express violence, xenophobia, nationalism and racism."
At the end of April, the police in Hesse were able to prevent a right-wing martial arts meeting. The scene had arranged to meet in a gym in Bad Wildungen. There, the forces found right-wing rock CDs and a knife.