In 1981, 141 people were arrested in the KOMM cultural center, many of them completely innocent and underage. A monograph now commemorates one of the greatest judicial disasters of the past decades.
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Olaf Przybilla, Nuremberg
When Siegfried Kett heard the radio news on the morning of March 6, 1981, he got the impression that downtown Nuremberg had been “ruined” overnight. That wasn’t the case. The damage caused by adolescents from the KOMM cultural center during a protest march against senselessly empty old buildings was later estimated at a maximum of 30,000 DM, rather less. A few shop windows were particularly affected. An investigating judge assessed this as a breach of the peace; 141 of allegedly 164 “suspects” were held with arrest warrants. Among them were those who had only had tea in the KOMM that evening, i.e. were not on the train at all. Let alone throwing stones.