Both sides have been playing a cat-and-mouse game for weeks – and are resorting to increasingly tricky methods. Now the city of Munich is using one of its sharpest tools to stop the protests.
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Joachim Molter
The public learned more casually this week that the Bavarian police have recently set up additional special units in their fight against evil. In the state parliament’s interior committee, Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) revealed that the riot police and several presidiums in the Free State now have what he calls “glue-on teams”: specially trained and equipped officers who are trained to remove stuck items be. They should then be called “glue-off teams” correctly, but that’s it: the main thing is a modern-sounding English term that can be used to label the units in a chic way (not to say: stick them on).