Unusual report from Gelsenkirchen: The police state security remembers rather darkly that there are laws in Germany, and that even left-wing extremists also have to abide by them. Following that a District Attorney, after a long while of pondering, also saw that such a thing could likewise happen to him, now it is being considered whether it is may be prohibited to use violence for the taking away of citizens’ constitutional right to peaceful assembly, simply because they are not left-wing extremists.

Even Der Westen (previously WAZ) is astounded at this:

Does the call for a peaceful blockade of a right-wing event fit the bill for the criminal act of duress? The discussions about the Gelsenkirchen protests against anti-Islam events by Pro NRW on March 26 and 27 are making waves.

The state security police are investigating an Internet call of the Coalition (of People) Against the Right, to which members such as the Greens, Young Socialists, Falcons, Left Party, Left Alternative, VVN, DKP, Antifa and Schokofront, and others belong. On its home page www.gelsenkirchen-nazifrei.de, The Coalition had called for making the Pro-NRW meeting place, Schloss Horst, unreachable by means of human blockades. The right-wing was to meet there on Saturday, March 27th. The protest initiatives against right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis in Dresden and Cologne were to serve as models.

Regional Greens and Young Socialist Committees Express Solidarity

Support is on the increase for the Coalition Against the Right (BGR) who has fallen under the scrutiny of the police and the District Attorney’s office. Thus, the Regional Greens and the Young Socialist national committee has signaled solidarity with the Gelsenkirchen initiative. “The call to counteractions against right-wing radical deployments cannot be criminalized,” Greens’ state manager Daniela Schneckenburger declared as a reaction to the Gelsenkirchen development. It is wrong when protests by democratic citizens are placed under suspicion. The Greens support counteractions against this “agitation conference” as they would any other right-wing extremist deployment and campaign of agitation.

At the other end of the evaluation of blockades, such investigations into anti-Right activists in NRW have a new quality, Member of the State Assembly and Speaker for Internal and Legal Policies of the Green State Parliament Faction, Monika Düker, said to the WAZ. In recent years there have been such appeals made for many events that haven’t led to punitive consequences.

Movement is Starting to Show in the Matter

On Friday, the Gelsenkirchen police examined the BGR-Webmaster responsible for genazifrei-de, Rolf Jüngermann (DKP – German Communist Party), regarding the matter. “The investigations continue,” said Gelsenkirchen’s speaker for the police, Konrad Kordts, in an interview. And how did it come to investigations? The police had inquired at the District Attorney’s office whether the appeal could have punitive relevance, so Kordts said. That received confirmation, whereupon the police took up their investigations — “just as it is our duty.”

The political background for the unusual renaissance of the constitutional state in NRW may well be the upcoming state parliament election. Experience up till now has shown that the Pro groups, that are competing even with the Muslims in a propaganda film to become the new Jews, often gain political clout if they can present themselves as victims. The Pro events are often so small that, not having the disproportionate deployments of Antifa and police, they can be ignored by the press without any further worry. The legal question regarding the criminal liability of appeals for disruption in any case aren’t too difficult to answer. The Law of Assembly says in § 21:

Whoever has the intention of hindering non-prohibited meetings or actions, or of blowing them up or stirring up any other such execution, or of planning or threatening acts of violence, or causing other major disturbances, will be punished by imprisonment for up to three years or punished with a fine.

That’s not really too hard to understand, is it?

(Photo: Antifascist propaganda: the eternal Nazi / Translation: Anders Denken)

Unusual report from Gelsenkirchen: The police state security remembers rather darkly that there are laws in Germany, and that even left-wing extremists also have to abide by them. Following that a District Attorney, after a long while of pondering, also saw that such a thing could likewise happen to him, now it is being ...

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