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Built danger area in Altona, St. Pauli and Sternschanze perhaps lacks any basis. Nevertheless, there is no end in sight
The life of the general population at the Hamburg neighborhood is not as exciting as is generally believed. Well, because every weekend are the ten thousands of tourists from Lower Bavaria, Pinneberg, Quick Born and Barmbek that not only St. Pauli, but also the Schanze district make the entertainment district. The football games are going not always unnoticed by the district. And of course there are the black-black summit between the state and the autonomous New Year's Eve, the first May and the ski jump hard ( The image of the young man with the concrete slab ). But otherwise Sunday evening at the latest folded by 20 clock of the sidewalk, and then to Friday's it for now rest in the box. Normally, anyway. But the normal case, do not anymore, now it says "danger area" . However, this is after all unique.
Specifically, this means the danger zone: The police creates automatically the area and the amount of time that the suspected persons independent and bag checks performed extremely restraining orders or arrests can be carried out. It defines its own, how often and with how many staff these checks are carried out. All this in order to "make it very clear (to), that the Hamburg police will exhaust all legal options to protect life and limb of its officials", as in a press statement announced by 03/01/2014. Since 01/04/2014 6 clock to local time so therefore back rioted.
What makes this 5 days a week with a yawn boring quarter now really so dangerous? Almost life-threatening for the friends and helpers in the neighborhood? We recall that on 21 December last year was in Hamburg an international (!) Demonstration for obtaining the left cultural center Rote Flora take place ( rubber bullets and license suspension instead of solving social problems ).
Even before summoned the Hanseatic gazettes of a civil war up, which are supposed to expect on this last weekend before Christmas. The police equipped to appropriately and clearly visible in the district, and accounted for a large part of Hamburg's city center to the danger area. Temporary, for the 21/12/2013. The region has seen more often in the past, in which an autonomous audience was expected mainly in connection with demonstrations, which had in its broadest sense to do with right to the city and independent living, and such as Flora demos.
On the eve of the international demo there was a warm-up in the neighborhood, which began after the football match St. Pauli against Karlsruher FC as a walk in the fresh air and ended up with a quarrel in the neighborhood, said David Guard, Hamburg's second most famous police station, after Großstadtrevier with stones pelted should have been and, in addition, several police cars were so badly damaged that they were no longer roadworthy. So fate took its course.
Then the demo route was part of the police severely restricted, or to keep the demo from the internal state and the zerdepperten Davidwache is located in the Christmas frenzy. The protest, which was formed in front of the Rote Flora and the apparently far more people joined, when the police had expected, was forcibly stopped after about 50m of the state power. Because the demo had gone off too early, because the officials were pelted with stones and were far too many "rioters" among the participants anyway, 4,700 of about 7,000 protesters, the official reason the police press office.
Thin evidence for the police
Because obviously even can Springer reporter recalculate that a demo can not be started too early, when she was logged for 14 clock and sat down shortly after 15 clock finally in motion, and since the internet Hauf videos, eyewitness accounts, such T. of bourgeois journalists, etc. appeared, showing that from the demo to the violent demolition by the police no violence had gone out, the evidence for the state power was quite thin. The scenario that followed on 12.21.2013 after 15 clock, the hour-long boiler from the Rote Flora, the excesses of violence in which panes of glass were broken, cars were destroyed, uninvolved Anwohnende felt threatened, and died in the nearly 700 people injured , could be explained by long with the high potential for violence by the demonstrators.
Very quickly it became clear that the hard and reckless strategy on the part of the police leadership has contributed significantly to the escalation. Although the media initially only the usual ruckus reports were to be seen, police and Senate came increasingly pressed to explain.
The alleged attack on the Davidwache that led to the declaration of the hazardous area
But then there was a second attack on the Davidwache, 28 December 2013, in which not only windows and cars were smashed, but a police officer was seriously injured. Allegedly
chanted 30 to 40 dark-suited, in part (including with St.Pauli scarves) masked people in chants of "St.Pauli - shit bulls - Have you still not enough!" When police officers then came out of the Davidwache, they were attacked on the corner of Reeperbahn / David Street from the group of people out selectively and abruptly with stone and bottle throwing.
So it was at least in the first press release to read the Hamburg police, the media has been cited nationwide. Spontaneous followed declarations of solidarity with the officials of the Davidwache, solidarity groups were founded in social networks and a demonstration against violence against the police was conducted, which also enjoyed great support from the population.
But of all the Davidwache! Apart from the degree of misanthropy that it needs to suddenly a paving stone to hurl a random path of the coming patrol officer in the face - how stupid must you be to attack the Davidwache? The picturesque area on the Reeperbahn is an integral part of the Hamburg folklore and the symbol par excellence for the good police, as everyone likes them: The official help drunken tourists to the hotel bed, holding the heavy hitters from the neighborhood fairly in check, and sometimes can be also readily photograph. Since you would have the same Großstadtrevier-star Jan Fedder can break the jaw.
Strengthened by so much solidarity among the population, advised the police leadership in parts of Hamburg-Altona, St Pauli and the star's Lair a spacious danger area. Valid from Saturday, 01/04/2014 6 clock, and of unlimited duration. Live over an area in the middle of a metropolitan city, in the tens of thousands of people every weekend and arrive more tens of thousands of tourists, the state of emergency is imposed for an indefinite period. WITHOUT that would have been about a parliament.
The police feels threatened, and relying on the support of the population in the districts in question, therefore, democracy is sometimes just overridden. The Left wants to check any extent that is constitutionally possible at all, as the internal political spokesperson of the parliamentary group, Christiane Schneider, in a press release announced. The danger area is "constitutionless," someone commented in a forum on a social network on the internet.
Instead, at least now de-escalating intervene, provides interior minister Michael Neumann (SPD) is clearly behind the police, whose behavior in the demonstration on 12.21.2013 and the statement of the danger area. He made it very clear at the hearing on the topic in the Internal Affairs Committee of citizenship on Monday.
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