Although a man is said to have repeatedly sexually harassed women at the FU Berlin, the ASta warns against calling the police for help (symbol image) Photo: picture alliance / Schoening
From the BZ editorial team
This accusation of racism is stunned! Although a man is said to have repeatedly sexually harassed and threatened women at Freie Universität Berlin, the General Student Committee (ASta) warns against calling the police for help.
Instead, you should first contact the security service of the university. “However, we would like to point out that police operations for people affected by racism are generally associated with an increased risk of experiencing police violence,” says the AStA letter.
The “Berlin morning post‘ was the first to discover the case.
The perpetrator is said to be in a “mental state of emergency”. According to the AStA letter, most police officers are “not sufficiently trained in dealing with exceptional psychological situations”. For this reason, such operations are often “escalated by the unnecessary use of force”.
The German police union accuses the ASta of perpetrator-victim reversal and reacted with outrage.
The man is said to have appeared repeatedly at various locations at the FU for several weeks and behaved sexistly and abusively towards women.
There have been no physical assaults so far, but there have been threats of violence. The man is said to have stalked one person for a long time.