By Gunnar Schupelius
After the arson attack on a police officer’s private car, the coalition passed a resolution that the political background of the perpetrators was not named. That’s absurd and a dangerous sign, says Gunnar Schupelius.
On the night of May 24, an arson attack was carried out on the private car of an officer from the Berlin State Criminal Police Office. The car burned out completely.
A letter of confession appeared on the Internet on an illegal left-wing extremist website. They threatened the police officer with further violence and published her name and home address.
This act was to be condemned in the Berlin Parliament last Thursday. The CDU and FDP submitted an application for this. The AfD was not there because the CDU and FDP reject any kind of cooperation with the right-wing party.
The CDU-FDP application states: “The House of Representatives declares war on every kind of extremism – regardless of whether this extremism is fed by a politically right-wing, a politically left-wing, a religious or another mental attitude”.
SPD, Greens and Left rejected this resolution. They passed their own bill, which was surprisingly voted on by the SPD. It says: “We condemn the allegedly politically motivated attack against an employee of the Berlin State Criminal Police Office.”
Two things are striking about this formulation: firstly, it is not mentioned from which political spectrum the perpetrators come and secondly, the term “presumed” is used to pretend that the attack may not have any political background at all.
However, both are clear from the letter of confession. It becomes even clearer when you consider that the police officer who was the target of the arson attack was in a senior position investigating left-wing extremists.
Although the perpetrators identify themselves as violent left-wing extremists, the SPD, the Greens and the Left wanted to prevent this truth from being named. SPD parliamentary group leader Saleh even arranged it in such a way that a verbal discussion about it was impossible.
The FDP MP Holger Krestel expressed concern that “the left-wing extremist background of the perpetrators is being concealed”. CDU MP Frank Balzer made a similar statement: “Red-Green-Red is apparently unable to find a consistent stance against left-wing extremism together.”
They are probably not unable, but not willing. This may be due to the fact that the radical fringes of the Left and Greens are merging into the extreme left scene. There are friendships and commitments.
Against the background of increasing crime, the ignorance seems downright grotesque: the number of violent left-wing extremists rose in 2021 by around 700 to 10,300 in Germany. Berlin is a stronghold of this scene.
In particular, the attack on officials is mainly carried out by leftists. In 2021 there were four times more acts of violence against police officers from the left than from the right.
The Berlin government is apparently unwilling to fight this danger or even address it.
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