Preventive detention against climate activists? This is illegal – opinion

Ten demonstrators have been sitting in Munich for days. your offense? They obstructed traffic for 90 minutes. How a passage, once devised in the fight against Islamist terrorists, now applies to peaceful demonstrators.

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Ron Steinke

While the Union faction in the Bundestag dreams feverishly authoritarian dreams of how the peaceful climate demonstrators who obstruct car traffic could be thrown in prison in the future – “Jail instead of fines,” demands CSU state group leader Alexander Dobrindt – the security authorities in Bavaria are already one Step further. You are living this dream. Twelve climate activists were locked up in Munich on Thursday. Ten of them remain behind bars simply for obstructing traffic at Stachus, a central square, for 90 minutes.

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