Alleged assault
Police leads MPs on demo
6/2/2023 1:21 am
The fact that MPs observe police operations is part of their tasks within the framework of parliamentary control. For the Saxon state parliamentarian Juliane Nagel, however, the attempt ended in handcuffs in a police car.
At a demonstration in Leipzig in the evening, the police arrested the Saxon left-wing member of the state parliament, Juliane Nagel. The Saxony police said on Twitter: “There is a disruption to an official act. Examinations are currently being carried out on the exact circumstances.” A police spokesman told the German Press Agency that it was not an arrest. Nagel had “become part of a police measure”. There is an allegation of a physical attack on police officers.
Nagel is also a city councilor in Leipzig and had registered the demonstration for equal opportunities and climate justice on the occasion of Children’s Day. According to the police, around 170 people took part at the top, apart from the occasional use of pyrotechnics, the demonstration was peaceful. The 44-year-old Nagel commented later in the evening in a video distributed via Twitter. She observed a measure in which the police established the identities of two people, one person was handcuffed for this. “I was standing there, a police officer first insulted or verbally abused me. Then he pushed me out of the way. Then he remembered that I had allegedly assaulted him.”
She was handcuffed and dragged relatively brutally to a police car – a video of it is circulating online, apparently they are emergency services of the Berlin police. “I was also told in the police car that the officers don’t give a damn if I’m a member of parliament.” Then her lawyer made phone calls and pointed out to the police “that she cannot proceed like this,” said Nagel. She was finally released after an identity check. The observation of police operations by members of parliament is part of parliamentary control within the framework of the separation of powers. According to the Saxon police, Nagel was not known to the emergency services acting there.
In Leipzig, the police are currently preparing for a large-scale operation at the weekend. For Saturday, the left-wing scene is mobilizing for “Day X” after the verdict against the alleged left-wing extremist Lina E., the police are expecting riots. The city of Leipzig banned a registered demonstration and also restricted the right of assembly.