| while I have upvoted this story and deeply sympathize with the victims of what appears to be a wide 'overreach of power' by the police, I also had a look at the website that was the 'cause' of this raid. !!! EDIT: I was under the impression, that this was their website. This is absolutely NOT proven and changes my viewpoint drastically !!! While I deeply sympathize with the political views and what they are protesting (a far right-wing party in germany), they have published/written tutorials on different forms/tools of protesting ranging from 'peaceful' tools like grafitti and the use of colors up to how to use stones, nails in boards (wood boards? similar to this: https://bit.ly/2tTF0kp) in order to stop cars or even how to burn cars. Now I'm not a lawyer, but while tutorials/information like this in itself probably isn't illegal, I assume there are laws that prohibit spurring people to protest using 'force'/violence. The context of this website and having those tutorials on it (including use gloves if you are using stones, because there could be fingerprints on it) combined with locations of AFD (super right-wing party) friendly locations can easily be seen/interpreted as a 'call to "violence"'. It's a super interesting debate, but it's not as black and white as those CCC members make it appear. Again, I deeply sympathize with their cause - I am probably not perfectly OK with their methods, though. edit: the website (in german) for those who want to judge themselves: https://augsburgfuerkrawalltouristen.noblogs.org/
Loosely translated: "Augsburg (city) for riot tourists" |