With an emotional press release, the federal police in Hanover gave their anger over numerous violations of the mask requirement and nerve-wracking arguments with the caught air.
“We don’t argue with you. And we don’t care about your opinion either! In the event of violations of the corona protection regulations, you will be notified immediately, ”said the message from Sunday. And further: “Just put on your mask and save us from your prosperity defiance. We already have enough to do! “
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Previously, federal police officers reportedly found 57 violations of the mask requirement in train traffic on the night of Sunday alone, most of them in the main train station of the Lower Saxony capital Hanover. Again and again it came to heated situations and acts of resistance.
Among other things, a 53-year-old man became “immediately aggressive” and threatened the officers with death. A 22-year-old man repeatedly interrupted the police, refused to check and ultimately offered such “considerable resistance” that he was forcibly taken to the police station.
Injured in protests against corona rules
In several cities in Germany, people again demonstrated against the Corona measures at the weekend. According to police, 14 police officers were injured in the protests in Greiz, Thuringia. After calls on social media, up to 1000 people gathered there on Saturday, the police said on Sunday. Protesters tried to break a police chain. The police then used pepper spray.
Video clips distributed on Twitter showed how protesters wrestled with the emergency services to break through the cordon. A photographer from the German press agency on site reported an aggressive mood.
Two injured police officers are temporarily no longer fit for duty, the police said. An injured officer was temporarily treated in the hospital. Police identified 207 protesters, issued 108 dismissals and initiated 44 criminal proceedings. In addition, there were 47 proceedings for administrative offenses.
According to the police, around 1,500 people took part in a rally on Saturday in Reutlingen (Baden-Württemberg) under the motto “For freedom, truth and self-determination”. Requests to wear a mask were ignored, it said. As a result, the congregation was dissolved.
According to the police, one group moved on anyway. Here, participants in the elevator lit pyrotechnics and torches. When the police tried to stop the gathering, police said that participants violently broke the officers’ chain and used pepper spray and batons. Several criminal cases were initiated during the evening for assaulting officials, insulting and attempted assault. In addition, around 100 dismissals were issued.
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Injuries also occurred in Bennewitz near Leipzig. According to the police, two police officers were slightly injured on Sunday morning. Two of the demonstrators were also slightly injured. According to the police, a total of around 25 people had gathered in the Schmölen district. Meetings with more than ten people are currently not permitted due to the corona situation in Saxony. In Plauen, Saxony, the police stopped an unauthorized demonstration of several hundred people on Sunday evening. The personal details of 226 participants were recorded. According to the police, the event remained peaceful.
Almost 100 people took part in a prohibited demonstration in Frankfurt (Hesse) on Saturday. The police said they disbanded the meeting. The police also stopped an unregistered protest march of the “lateral thinkers” movement against the Corona rules with 550 people at times in Hamm (North Rhine-Westphalia). According to the police, there were many violations of the Corona Protection Ordinance and the general decree of the city in the elevator on Saturday afternoon. Criminal proceedings were initiated against the alleged leader of the meeting for violating the Assembly Act and for insulting him.
In Hamburg, Trier, Berlin, Schwerin and various Saxony-Anhalt and Bavarian cities, people also took to the streets against the Corona measures, it remained peaceful in each case. A total of 750 people demonstrated in two locations in the Dachau district on Sunday evening. At the beginning of the week, the police in Saxony-Anhalt, according to their own statements, are expecting numerous meetings with a corona-related issue.
Protests also in Spain and Austria
Bundestag President Bärbel Bas expressed concern that the protests would increase. Radicalization is also “noticeable”, said the SPD politician on Sunday evening on the ZDF program “Berlin direkt”. Bas called for a ban on demonstrations in front of the private houses of politicians and closer observation of Telegram chat groups. Many critics of Corona measures network via the messenger service.
There were also protests outside of Germany this weekend: In Barcelona, around 3,000 people took part in one of the rather rare demonstrations against Corona restrictions in Spain. It was mainly about the obligation in Catalonia to present a Corona passport when entering nightclubs, discos, restaurants or fitness clubs. In Austria, around 15,000 people gathered at a rally on Heldenplatz in Vienna on Saturday, according to police. The head of the right-wing FPÖ, Herbert Kickl, called for resistance to the mandatory vaccination planned from February. (dpa)
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