Polizei korrigiert sich: Zweifel am Angriff auf Davidwache - taz.de

Polizei korrigiert sich: Zweifel am Angriff auf Davidwache - taz.de

HAMBURG taz | The violent attack of 30 to 40 masked men on the David Guard in St. Pauli, in which police officers were reportedly seriously injured, has not taken place, as initially shown by the police. The admitted on Monday police spokesman Mirko Streiber. "The seriously injured colleague has been no violation on the Reeperbahn, but at 200 meters in the Hein-Hoyer-Strasse," Streiber said the taz.

But Streiber remains that there had been on the station stone throwing, making but no one was injured. "There are witnesses," says Streiber. Video images of the alleged attack, however, there is not. "The David Guard has indeed to protect video surveillance," says Streiber. "But it is not recorded anything - so are the data protection laws."

Initially, the police had claimed that David Guard was on the evening of 28 December at 23.03 clock of been partially attacked with St. Pauli scarf hooded dark-clad people and the chants were chanted: "St. Pauli - shit cops - you still have not enough her "had come as police officers from the police station, they were at the corner of Reeperbahn / David Street" "has been attacked from the group of people out selectively and abruptly with stone and bottle throwing. Here, a 45-year-old officer had a jaw and broken nose suffered when "suggested perpetrator at close out a stone in the face" to him one of the. One police officer was sprayed pepper spray in the eyes, and a third officer suffered an abdominal hematoma. Chief Wolfgang Kopitzsch (SPD) was indignant. "Such targeted and massive assaults on police officers are unbearable," he said.

The alleged violent attack on the Davidwache had a real media campaign on violence initiated against police officers in the course of police union wanted to legitimize the use of firearms and the introduction of stun guns - known as Tasers - demanded.

Lawyer Andreas Beuth had on Sunday rejected the police version, based on eyewitness and mandates that have stayed at the relevant time before the Davidwache. "So there was no partially masked persons group of 30 to 40 people," Beuth said. There have been no persons in front of David Guard, whose plan and purpose it would have been to attack the police station guard or their officers. "Accordingly, there has been no time to rock or bottle thrown at the building of the station guard, a fortiori, on coming out of the police station police officers," said Beuth.

Behind the "deliberately misrepresenting" suspected Beuth "obvious political interests of the police leadership and their unions" as demands for additional staff, better pay the police, an "upgrade" of the police and currently setting up a permanent danger zone of unprecedented expansion.

That it could have come 200 miles away in Hein-Hoyer-Straße/Seilerstraße to an incident that had been attacked at the uniformed officers of district visitors, Beuth did not rule.

In this context, the prosecutor's office has now launched an investigation of attempted homicide and aggravated assault against a stranger. Police spokesman Streiber appealed to Beuth to call his witnesses to the events to the police, "so that one can get a clear picture."

The disc is broken, no doubt: At least the first attack on the Hamburg David Guard at 20.12. seems the police have correctly displayed picture. dpa