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Report: Germany Fearing Britain-Type Protests
TEHRAN (FNA)- German security and police authorities are quietly preparing themselves for UK-like protests, media reports revealed.
A report by Bernama said that scenes of recent unrests in Britain have been closely watched in Germany and indeed, German security experts and police have been quietly preparing themselves for any such eventuality that rocked Britain and caused massive destruction.
A German police union official recently warned that the Britain-type of unrests could also take place in Germany. But German politicians quickly reacted and ruled out that Germany risked facing such unrest.
Rainer Wendt, the head of the Deutsche Polizei Gewerkschaft (German Police Union), recently stated in a conversation with the German tabloid Bild-Zeitung that Germany also bore signs of social problems that had been the cause of the massive riots in London and other big cities in Britain for nearly a week.
Wendt added that the riots were the consequence of "contempt for the state and the social marginalisation of certain groups". This explosive mix also exists in Germany.
Sociologists and other activists agree with this assessment although German politicians tend to play down these problems.
German security experts note that Britain's unrest was sparked by the killing of a 29-year-old man by police in London. The riots then escalated and spread to Manchester and the Midlands.
According to Wendt, the annual May 1 demonstrations in Hamburg and Berlin had all the potential to spark similar unrest in the country.
He expressed fears that the German police and politicians would also be overstretched, as their British counterparts were, in the early days of such massive protests, if such incidents indeed broke out in Germany.
There have been calls by German police to be equipped with better technical resources to monitor social networking sites and other communications methods, used to organize the British protests.
A report by Bernama said that scenes of recent unrests in Britain have been closely watched in Germany and indeed, German security experts and police have been quietly preparing themselves for any such eventuality that rocked Britain and caused massive destruction.
A German police union official recently warned that the Britain-type of unrests could also take place in Germany. But German politicians quickly reacted and ruled out that Germany risked facing such unrest.
Rainer Wendt, the head of the Deutsche Polizei Gewerkschaft (German Police Union), recently stated in a conversation with the German tabloid Bild-Zeitung that Germany also bore signs of social problems that had been the cause of the massive riots in London and other big cities in Britain for nearly a week.
Wendt added that the riots were the consequence of "contempt for the state and the social marginalisation of certain groups". This explosive mix also exists in Germany.
Sociologists and other activists agree with this assessment although German politicians tend to play down these problems.
German security experts note that Britain's unrest was sparked by the killing of a 29-year-old man by police in London. The riots then escalated and spread to Manchester and the Midlands.
According to Wendt, the annual May 1 demonstrations in Hamburg and Berlin had all the potential to spark similar unrest in the country.
He expressed fears that the German police and politicians would also be overstretched, as their British counterparts were, in the early days of such massive protests, if such incidents indeed broke out in Germany.
There have been calls by German police to be equipped with better technical resources to monitor social networking sites and other communications methods, used to organize the British protests.
