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Consequences of New Year’s Eve: Alarm pistols should no longer be freely available, the Interior Minister announced, among other things.
After the attacks on police and firefighters on New Year’s Eve in Berlin, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) tightening of gun laws announced. Alarm guns, which were used in addition to pyrotechnics against emergency services, should therefore only be able to be bought with a permit in the future.
The pistols, which do not fire live ammunition, are not harmless instruments, Faeser said on Friday during a visit to the Neukölln fire station. “It’s a weapon.” Tightening the law here is a “important signal”. She hopes for the support of the Conference of Interior Ministers (IMK), which Berlin’s Interior Senator Iris Spranger (SPD) has chaired since the beginning of the year.
Berlin Senate announces summit on youth violence
At the same time, the Berlin Senate announced a summit on the subject for next Wednesday youth violence on. It should be discussed there what consequences are necessary after the New Year’s Eve riots, it said. According to Berlin’s Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD), it is wrong to only focus on New Year’s Eve.
“It’s the tip of an iceberg.” The underlying problem, however, is “a decline in values, a disrespect, which becomes visible on all other days”. There are obviously young people who no longer feel a part of society and no longer feel obliged to do so. And that should be taken seriously.
Bettina Jarasch (Greens) warns against high expectations
Environment Senator (Greens) warned against too high expectations of such an event. you hold short-term activism wrong, said Jarasch on Friday in the “RBB-Inforadio”. It is important that punishments follow the crimes immediately. However, the courts would also have to be equipped accordingly.
On Friday, Giffey again called for swift and consistent punishment for crimes, particularly those involving young people who committed multiple crimes. In view of the violence by minors on New Year’s Eve, she believes that the judiciary needs to rethink. The question is, “how much do we do to ensure that the penalty follows immediately. That young offenders still know what they are being sentenced for.”
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Giffey: “The situation has worsened in the last two years”
The fact that the state reacts quickly is all the more important because the situation has worsened in the past two years. Reason are also the restrictions during the corona pandemicwhich had a massive impact on children and young people “and had an even stronger effect in social hotspots,” said Giffey.
The social democrat referred to the so-called “Neukölln model”, the aim of which is the rapid punishment of minor offenses by young offenders and that kind of thing educational effect should unfold.
contradiction came from the Senator for Justice (left), who considers accelerated procedures inappropriate in this context. “It is important that the judgments are accurate,” says Kreck. “It is all the more important that the public prosecutor’s office is very well positioned with the appointment of an experienced specialist department for these New Year’s Eve cases.”
German police union wants to get criminals out of the country
the German police union (DPolG), on the other hand, wants criminals with foreign passports to be removed from the country if possible. “The sanctioning of criminal behavior, especially in the case of attacks on police and fire brigade forces, also includes the initiation of measures to end the stay of people for whom this is legally possible,” says a paper by the DPolG federal management around the union chairman Rainer Wendt, which the Berliner Morgenpost available.
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“The previous political pattern of quick outrage, warning of quick shots and subsequent Return to the agenda must be overcome if we do not want events to be exploited by political extremists and thus used for their purposes,” said Wendt.
The union is demanding one from politicians clear strategy and consistent decisions to prevent incidents like those at the turn of the year in the future. This includes the fact that, especially in the case of juvenile offenders, the penalties must follow immediately. (with dpa)
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