Police analysis: Number of prison complaints following anti-AfD protests in Giessen is growing | EUROtoday

After the protests in opposition to the founding of the AfD youth group in Giessen on the finish of November, the Central Hesse police headquarters have obtained an increasing number of prison complaints. These come up from the analysis of picture and video materials in addition to from data that’s evaluated by the specifically based working group, a spokesman for the police headquarters instructed the German Press Agency upon request.

“The review of individual processes is very time-consuming due to the large amount of data and the care required,” it stated. It consists of each the authorized evaluation, in coordination with the general public prosecutor’s workplace, in addition to the dependable attribution of picture and video materials to particular person occasions, in order that the variety of prison proceedings initiated will proceed to develop.

The spokesman defined that conclusive data on the variety of procedures can not but be given. The processing is prone to take fairly a while. The period relies upon not solely on the variety of prison proceedings but in addition on the scope of the respective investigations.

The majority of investigations are carried out on suspicion of resistance, insults, bodily hurt, breach of the peace and harm to property, amongst different issues. The police final spoke of a mid-double-digit variety of investigations in mid-December, a few of which had been additionally directed in opposition to cops.

The protest was principally peaceable

On November twenty ninth, round 25,000 individuals protested in opposition to the founding of a brand new AfD youth group in Giessen – nearly all of them peacefully. But there have been additionally clashes between cops and demonstrators. Several thousand officers from Hesse and 14 different federal states in addition to federal police had been concerned within the operation. More than 50 cops had been injured, and there have been additionally accidents among the many demonstrators.

Officials repeatedly needed to clear highway blockades – based on their very own statements, as a result of urgently wanted emergency and rescue routes had been utterly blocked. There was additionally property harm. Hesse’s Interior Minister Roman Poseck (CDU) was satisfied that with out the deployment of a number of thousand cops, severe acts of violence would in all probability have occurred. The “Resist” alliance, however, had complained about huge police violence.