Berlin supporters of Hamas terrorists are mobilising for hatred protests and violent riots in the Neukölln and Kreuzberg districts on Thursday evening – using a lie.
This fake news spread rapidly: a 13-year-old Palestinian was allegedly beaten so badly by a riot police officer during riots on Sonnenallee at around 9pm on Wednesday night that he would be in a coma. Meanwhile, radicals claim that he died.
According to information from this newspaper, this is a lie that has been deliberately spread. A police spokesman said on request: “There was no such incident.” However, the circumstances of the rumour are being investigated. Berlin police spokeswoman Beate Ostertag: “This is fake news.”
As the Berlin police posted on the X platform (formerly Twitter), police officers were on duty in Neukölln and were attacked with stones, fireworks and flammable liquids. During the arrest of suspects, there was also resistance and physical violence with injuries. Literally, the police state: “No one died yesterday because of this.” And further: “We know that many people are emotional at the moment. But Fake News is dangerous – and in the worst case leads to violence.”
But according to a senior police leader, telling the truth will not stop the agitated community in the troubled districts of Neukölln and Kreuzberg from seeking violent conflict with the police.
“It has also not mattered in Morocco, Tunisia and Greece or in Lebanon that Israel is not responsible for the bombing of the hospital in Gaza. They are simply looking for a reason to riot,” the official said.
In view of the numerous riots, the Berlin security authorities are at their limits. According to information from the newspaper B.Z., the capital’s police have already asked other federal states for support. However, other federal states are said to have asked Berlin for help in turn.
Berlin cannot count on units of the Federal Police in the long run – these officers have been detached to the currently newly established border controls with the neighbouring countries of the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria. One official: “The problem is homemade and hardly manageable.”
The Berlin spokesman for the police union (GdP), Benjamin Jendro, has similar words: “We will also feel the increasing military escalation in the Middle East in violent actions on Berlin’s streets, and their own falsehoods will act as an accelerant in social media.”
The federal government has a responsibility here and cannot pass on the effects on the security conditions in the capital to the Berlin police alone, but must provide support in staffing.
An officer familiar with the scene comes to a sad conclusion: “On the part of the Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faser, you can’t exactly feel good as a police officer. After 65 police officers were injured in the recent riots, the officers expect more backing from the responsible federal interior minister.”
https://www.bz-berlin.de/polizei/radikale-muslime-nutzen-luege-um-zur-hass-demo-aufzurufen