Rally 3 pm – Prison Hammerweg – Dresden
May 8, 2021, anniversary of Germany’s surrender and liberation from German fascism, is a day for celebration. But it is also a day to denounce racism, anti-Semitism and fascism. Today we denounce the #police problem in Germany. We demand: The consistent clarification of countless racist incidents and the immediate denazification of security agencies riddled with radical right-wing networks and ideologies. We say: This is not security!
We denounce
Racist police violence – discriminatory checks, intimidation, attacks, murders and deaths in custody – is the order of the day in Germany. We are not talking about tragic „individual cases,“ but about entrenched institutional racism against refugees, Black people, persons of color, Rom*nja and Sinti*zze. Since 1990 alone, 181 people affected by racism have died in prisons and police stations. Most recently, the racist, cruel treatment of several inmates at Dresden Prison, who were harassed and mistreated by security personnel, became public.¹ And national borders are also associated with experiences of violence for many people: Police persecution, inhumane deportations, and illegal pushbacks with EU benevolence in Greece and the Balkans.
You have police, we have questions
The Saxon police are in the public eye with numerous scandals that show that the entire police apparatus is riddled with neo-Nazis and racists: leaked documents and information that turn up at right-wing groups², police officers who themselves act as organizers and participants of right-wing demonstrations³ or conduct shooting training on the premises of convinced neo-Nazis.⁴ On the other hand, there is a notorious zeal for persecution against left-wing and anti-fascist groups and individuals. It ranges from Lothar König and the so-called Antifasportgruppe to the surveillance and persecution of Kurdish activists under §129a to the work of the „Soko Linx“ and the arrest of the antifascist Lina. „You are not security – Against the racism and nazis of the security authorities!“ weiterlesen
Reform.
