STORY: Note: This post will be broadcast without narration. O-Ton Nancy Faeser (SPD), Federal Minister of the Interior: “These violent excesses, which really stunned and made me angry, yes, they also need plain language. They have to be named. And I’ve made that very, very clear these days. Because we have a problem in big cities with certain young men with a migration background, who despise our state, commit acts of violence and are hardly reached with education and integration programs. You have to be able to name that clearly, without stirring up resentment and without generalizing. It’s about very specific things Violent criminals. The entire neighborhood often suffers from them, including many people with a migration background. What do you think about the opinion in Neukölln about many people who live there, have a migration background, do their work, pay taxes as normal. They in particular tell us you have to take tough action and don’t want to accept what happened there, and that’s why it’s auc h wrong to abuse it politically. But yes, it has to be addressed that we have an issue there, a problem and that we have to take care of it. And from my point of view there is only one answer to that. The police have to go very consistently into these hotspots, and that’s the crucial thing, young offenders have to realize very quickly that their misconduct has criminal consequences. Therefore, a quick trial of these juvenile delinquents. That’s the measure of what we need these days, ladies and gentlemen.”