Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Michael Stübgen has responded to the physical attack on Berlin’s Senator for Economic Affairs Franziska Giffey Brutality on social networks and threats against politicians are condemned. “Unfortunately, we have had this spiral for years and this year we are dealing with a violent spiral of physical attacks on politicians, which worries me extremely,” the CDU politician, who currently heads the Conference of Interior Ministers, said on Wednesday on RBB24. info radio.
He also sees a brutalization towards fire and rescue services, for example, which “has also increased enormously in recent years”. Therefore, criminal protection of charitable activities must be better extended.
Stübgen spoke of a development in which volunteer politicians and campaign workers who were not special representatives were attacked en masse across Germany. “In our opinion, these areas are not sufficiently protected under criminal law. That is why we ask the Conference of Ministers of Justice to investigate this question.” Stübgen described local voluntary political work as “the foundation of our democratic constitutional state, and here criminal protection is not sufficient.”
Giffey was slightly injured in a physical attack in the Rudow neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon, police and the public prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday evening. A man “suddenly attacked the SPD politician from behind with a bag filled with hard contents and hit her in the head and neck” in a library. The State Security Police has taken over the investigation.
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Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Michael Stübgen has responded to the physical attack on Berlin’s Senator for Economic Affairs Franziska Giffey Brutality on social networks and threats against politicians are condemned. “Unfortunately, we have had this spiral for years and this year we are dealing with a violent spiral of physical attacks on politicians, which worries me extremely,” the CDU politician, who currently heads the Conference of Interior Ministers, said on Wednesday on RBB24. info radio.
He also sees a brutalization towards fire and rescue services, for example, which “has also increased enormously in recent years”. Therefore, criminal protection of charitable activities must be better extended.