Freiburg (dpa / lsw) – Two police horses drink from the fountain on the square of the Old Synagogue, a barrier tape is attached to a memorial plaque. The Freiburg Police Vice President Matthias Zeiser apologized in an open letter for two incidents during a weekend operation. The “Badische Zeitung” reported on it first.
Four people had occupied a tree on the edge of the square, on which a synagogue stood until it was destroyed in the pogrom night of 1938, in protest against the construction of a motorway. The police cordoned off the area to rule out a risk, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday. At first, flutter tape was used and also attached to a memorial plaque. Two officers from the Mannheim Reiterstaffel, who were routinely out and about in Freiburg as part of the security partnership, were involved in the operation. The two policemen let their horses drink from the well. An observer complained to the police via a social network.
In the open letter published on Monday, Zeiser wrote: “That shouldn’t have happened.” The events took on a special significance with a view to the anniversary of the pogrom night on November 9th. Society should expect from the Freiburg police headquarters that respect and tolerance guide the actions of the officers.
From the point of view of the chairwoman of the Freiburg Israelite Congregation, Irina Katz, there is a fundamental problem on the square. Again and again people let their dogs in the well. Many passers-by do not pay enough attention to the place of remembrance; She would like individual glass walls to be erected around the area with reference to the importance of the place where one should behave appropriately. The monument to the Sinti and Roma murdered under National Socialism in Berlin’s Tiergarten could serve as a model.
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