SecondDuring the “Horizontal Thinkers” protest in Berlin on Saturday, especially Sunday, the police arrested nearly a thousand people or temporarily restricted their freedom. The police announced this in their presentation weekend balance sheet on Monday night. According to the autopsy report, more than 60 police officers were injured, some of whom were seriously injured, and one demonstrator died of a heart attack.
According to their own accounts, on Sunday alone, the police also launched 503 preliminary investigations, including 59 suspected resistance and 43 attacks on law enforcement personnel. There are other reports because of suspected particularly serious breaches of the peace, release of prisoners, violations of the Freedom of Assembly Act and participation in prohibited meetings, as well as violations of infection control regulations.
According to an autopsy, a participant died of a heart attack after being inspected by the police on Sunday during a ban protest in the so-called “Horizontal Thinker” scene in Berlin. 48-year-old man’s physical examination Charity “The initial result is that a heart attack resulted in death,” the Berlin prosecutor’s office said on Monday. The final investigation is still ongoing.
The authorities further explained: “There is no sign of external violence that led to death during the arrest.” According to the news, the man broke a police chain, knocked down and injured a policeman. This subsequently followed and arrested him. Immediately afterwards, the protesters complained of shoulder pain, then chest pain and tingling hands, and finally fell to the ground. The immediate resuscitation attempt was unsuccessful and the man died in the Charité intensive care unit that night.
Assault reporter
Like a union give It was announced that Jörg Reichel, the Berlin state manager of the German Journalists Union, was attacked by participants. According to his own account, he was dragged off the bicycle. The demonstrators then punched and kicked him. They only fled when passers-by intervened. Reichel was injured and had to be treated in the clinic. According to the police, the national security service took over the investigation.
Christoph Schmitz, a member of the Verdi Federal Executive Committee, said: “This brutal violence clearly shows that the so-called’horizontal thinker presentation’ is not about criticism and freedom of speech, but about a collection of democratic enemies.” Reichel’s photo and name are shared in related Telegram groups. The union stated that he himself publicly threatened and hostile.
According to its deputy spokesperson Ulrike Demmer (Ulrike Demmer), the federal government is “very concerned” about the riots. She said in Berlin on Monday that the violence in the demonstration was unacceptable.
