Law enforcement request for a "rule of law campaign"
Due to a rise in assaults on politicians and voting staff, the Bundestag is discussing stricter laws against politically prompted violence. The German Judges' Association calls this dialogue "superficial" and pushes for more preventive measures.
The German Judges' Association (DRB) is requesting additional resources for legal prosecution considering the recent assaults on officials. DRB's Federal Managing Director Sven Rebehn told the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung," "The traffic light coalition t secretly cast about the sturdiness of legal principles, but they do too little in genuine action." Over 900,000 pending cases are storing up at prosecutors' offices across Germany. "Calls for stiffer sentences and quicker legal processes remain surface-level lip service while a chronically overtaxed justice system can't stay on top of its boosting tasks," Rebehn added.
Rebehn argues for a "judicial defensive campaign" creating the enlargement of preventive projects, more education regarding false news on social networking sites, and indisputable criminal prosecutions. "At the same time, antagonism and hate speech are growing online and attacks on officials are increasing, the traffic light administration has undermined legal principles and withdrawn from the intended cooperation among the federal and state governments to reinforce them."
The Bundestag is holding a topical debate to discuss the most recent cases of politician attacks and brutality against volunteers and first responders. The debate, proposed by the Ampel parliamentary quarters, will last an hour.
In early August, the Saxon SPD MEP Matthias Ecke was brutally ambushed and seriously injured in Dresden. Before this, the supposed perturbators assaulted a 28-year-old man hanging up Greens campaign posters. Last week, Berlin's SPD Senator for Finance Franziska Giffey was slightly harmed in a bag attack, and on Tuesday evening, several local Green members and campaign staff received harassment in Dresden. Last week, the AfD reported an attack on their campaign stand in Stuttgart, which an Antifa group admitted to.
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Rebehn expresses concern about the traffic light coalition potentially undermining legal principles and withdrawing from cooperative efforts to strengthen them, as extreme cases of violence against politicians and voting staff continue to rise. In light of these legal issues and the growing prevalence of antagonism and hate speech online, there is a pressing need for a comprehensive "judicial defensive campaign" that includes preventive projects, social media education, and robust criminal prosecutions.
Source: www.ntv.de
