From Hildburg Bruns
The Berlin police chief is for it, the SPD interior senator, the CDU anyway. But at their party congress, the majority of comrades now voted AGAINST the extension of preventive detention from 48 hours to five days.
This also means that a judge, for example, would no longer be able to stop climate changers from possible serious repeat offenses.
The justification of the rebellious SPD delegates: “The rule of law must endure expressions of opinion even if the forms of protest gnaw at the nerves of many. The police preventive detention must not have the character of a sanction.”
From the point of view of the social majority, an extension of the prevention days would be conceivable at most in the case of terrorism.
But the black-red coalition agreement, which is still hot off the press and which was approved by a majority of the 19,000 SPD members, wants to allow an extension of up to five days in the Police Act (ASOG).
Still shorter than elsewhere: Bavaria allows up to 30 days, NRW, Saxony, Brandenburg up to 14 days. In Berlin, judges have so far ordered short-term detention against climate chaos in 57 cases.
Politics only sets the framework, a judge decides in individual cases, emphasizes Interior Senator Iris Spranger (61, SPD). The politician combative to the BZ: “The member’s vote is the highest democratic decision and that has to be accepted by a state party conference.” The CDU is also expected to adhere to the coalition agreement in cases that are particularly important to the SPD.
SPD interior senator Iris Spranger (61) wants to stick to the agreement with the CDU, is preparing an amendment to the police law Photo: picture alliance/dpa
Spranger’s challenge to the delegates: “I’m sticking to the coalition agreement.”