Of 1.90-Meter man throws his 20-pound backpack with bandages, panting on the floor. Champs-elysées, here are the end of the day for Andy Eggert. For hours he walked, with yellow West through the streets of Paris, hunted by the police units on motorcycles, easily recognizable in his red medic dress. It is also the red Andy, or The Red Rock. It’s Saturday night, and from anywhere, people in yellow vests, flock to the “Schangselie”, as the lörrach says. Him knee and back pain, but it was a good day. The worst injury was a sprained ankle.
In the last few weeks, it was quite different. “How in the civil war,” says Eggert. “There’s a patch flying stones and gas bombs right through the Christmas lights.” The man with the piercing blue eyes and the Swabian accent in the middle. Since the beginning of the protests, the 46-Year-old left home on a Friday night, to land on Saturday, right in the centre of the fighting: In the tear gas fog, he verarztete people with blown off hands, imposed eyes, the head wounds from police batons, broken bones, internal bleeding. He did police officers, anarchists and yellow vests, First aid, before he brought them to the off-station ill. This is also urgently needed, the clashes are violent. Demonstrators throw acid and cobblestones, the police is also frowned upon is the weapons: flash ball guns with hard rubber ammunition, helicopters dropped tear gas. 98 cases of serious injury, which lists the French activist collective “Désarmons-les!” (“Let’s disarm them!”) on the side of the yellow the West; at least 15 people have lost by rubber bullets, one eye, 11 people died in the protests so far – most of them in traffic.
The father wanted him to. crucify
For nearly three years, a trained paramedic demonstrations accompanied, voluntarily and on their own account He was in Chemnitz, Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, Strasbourg, to “people-watch”, as he calls it. His public service. Of course, it is also a terrific adventure, particularly in France, where the yellow West have been demonstrating for 10 weeks continuously. Here history is written, and Eggert wants to be. For him, this is a revolt of the people against the elites – and he hopes that the message arrives in his own Land: “With my Outfit I’ll show the Merkel government the Red card,” he says. Eggert is close to the AfD, but with right-wing extremism and racism, he wanted to have nothing to do, he says.
In Paris, two young men in yellow vests in front of him, want to know who he was and what he was doing here. He explained in German and is quickly recognized as the Paramedic, to take care of serious injuries. One of the men to tears with a grin on his cap off his head and shows a twenty-centimeter-long wound, with metal clips stapled them together. It was a police truncheon. Despite this, the man in the best of spirits: “Thank you for supporting us!” he calls. Such words Eggert’s wage.
On the Demos he doctored people with blown off hands, imposed eyes and severe head wounds place.
When it POPs, there is Eggert the middle. He also worked in Switzerland, was, according to its own information, the wreck of a train with the Glacier-Express. Helping people is his vocation, which he paid with the own health, Once he got broken in the use of the back of the Neck. Another Time he was called to a road accident: a car full of fire, inside a family. The time was short, so he smashed the window, the children worn out, then the adults. He had slipped and had broken a vertebrae in his back. Health insurance is not paid. The reason: He had perceived in the fire-technical tasks, which were not located in his area of responsibility. Even if the family would otherwise be burned. Eggert shrugs his shoulders. A further injustice in a world in which only the winners count. Even as a child he experienced a lot of violence. When he was five, got him nailed to his foster father through the mother to the door frame. “He wanted to crucify me like Jesus.” A scar bears witness to the hand plate of the abuse. He came into the home. “There, you have a choice,” he says. “Either you go down or up. I’ve decided to go to the top.”
With 14, he joined bikers, his surrogate family, until today, he adheres to their code of honor: community, care, honor and respect for women and children. If someone beats children or women stupid turns, Eggert in-between, to tell his friends. He married, had three children, and today he is divorced. This is also why he was going on Demos, for the future of his children: “I want to be able to say that I have used.” Like many others, has politicised the year 2015 Eggert. “Germany for me has always been simply the country in which I lived. But after 2015, everything changed.” It’s Angela Merkel’s interferes with “can-do”, mainly because little people like him had to bear the consequences. It it disturbing, if he can see, such as Old bottles to collect, because the pension is too little and will be taxed. It is this feeling that the Elite exploited, which connects him with the yellow West. And he hopes to see similar protests in Germany.
fear of defamation
It also disrupts the violence that he was exposed to in emergency service since 2015 increasingly. Often migrants, he says. To accommodation a rescue in a Refugee called, was started by a group of 20 men who had already attacked the victim, to him. Eggert made a display, to follow had it not, he says. The System is corrupt, the media is switched. As in April 2018 West Africans killed in a Hamburg railway station, his wife, and the joint Baby, wrote to the Newspapers first, that the child had died in a fall. In fact, the father had beheaded his one year old daughter, like a Video. The police stopped the for reasons of respect the secret, for Eggert, it is an example of censorship. Also, the discussion of Islam should belong to Germany, is for practicing Christians is a provocation. He tells an anecdote that when he was a First-aid course with the Arab people in the class. You should revive a woman again, but “they refused to handle”. He ordered them to be covered by the examination, at the end, he was accused of racism.
“I Have done what I could.”
Because of his political engagement, he got in some trouble. In the summer of 2018, his employer announced him out of the blue, he had only to learn later that he was defamed as a right-extreme. They wanted commitment from his employees, not a political, he was granted, he fought back in court and got legal. Nevertheless, he looked for a new Job, unsuccessfully. He believes to be on a black list. Now, he is through as a taxi driver, and begins in the spring, a new training. Don’t want to call it – out of fear, to be ruled out a priori.
If Andy Eggert from a long weekend of demonstrations comes home, he says: “I’m too old for this.” Then he looks at his swollen feet, the backpack. Says: It was a tough day, a bloody day, but I did what I could. Then he goes to sleep. And when the next Demo is in the offing, he grabs his backpack. And drives off into the night.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 22.01.2019, 22:33 PM
