city spokesman Jan Gloßmann looks thoughtful. “Admittedly, the choice of words was drastically and also a certain degree of emotionality sprung,” he said on Wednesday night the daily mirror: “But if you try for many weeks to a peaceful Coexistence, then one is disappointed when one incident makes all of these efforts come to nothing.”
The incident happened after previous investigations in the new year night, at around 3.45 PM. The city of fountain, several persons in dispute, others wanted to arbitrate, including a 28-Year-old, attacked by a, as it was called in the first Police report, “unknown foreigners” with knife wounds and life-threatening was injured came.
“a Ticket home”
the city had to apologize published a communication in which it stated, inter alia: “This is fact – like the previous, also – repellent and nothing. Our sympathy goes out to the Injured party, for the CTK (Carl-Thiem-Klinikum, d. Red.) everything Necessary will be done. But even if that doesn’t satisfy the impatience of many for sure: First of all, the sequence of events and backgrounds need to be informed and the offender will be found, so that justice may come. (…) Should enjoy the or the perpetrator here are a guest and not a blank slate, we will not hesitate to send him or them to make it clear that he or she will have to solve a Ticket home. We hope that the legal authorities decide quickly and uncompromisingly. We let our city not by the types of damage that can’t behave and think to be able to conflicts in this way.“
outrage in the social media
Especially the last paragraph triggered in social media such as Twitter and Facebook a storm of indignation. Users saw in the formulations, a far-right radical ideas. The left member of the Landtag Andrea Johlige asked the Cottbus spokesman, to take the content from the network, or to revise it.
On Wednesday afternoon, responded that the city and presented a statement before the controversial message: “Basically, we want to make it clear that we are against racism and xenophobia in our city. Everyone who wants to live in our city, to feel comfortable and included. But we also condemn any act of violence, regardless of who is identified as a suspect. Everyone who respects the laws and offences commit – regardless of origin – must take place according to the legal consequences.“
More about
violence in Bottrop, Germany, and Amberg, The devastating consequences of hatred
Frank Jansen
You have modified the statement because the police, in the meantime, by a “suspected suspects with a Mediterranean look,” said Gloßmann. The 28-year-old dispute mediator, is out of danger.
