On February 15, on Saturday, several hundred people were sitting on the street, including Linda. They want to block one of the greatest marches of Nezi in Europe, the so -called “memorial march”, 80 years after the allies bombed Dresden in the Second World War. According to estimates, 2000 Nezi and other right extremists drove around the city this year, about twice as many people protested against him.
To ensure the observance of freedom to demonstrate extreme rights, the police in Dresden cleans the anti -fascist seats. Before the officials with her, Mila Linde briefly examined the stood, but decides against it. Neo -nazi -march should be as difficult as possible. But when the police run away, she does not want to protect herself, Linda tells TAZ on the phone a few days later. In fact, this means two two, but wants to remain anonymous so as not to aim at a police officer: to go inside.
At some moment they shine: inside with her. You Linden Linden from asphalt. But what is happening then, Linda only recalls in fragments: a hand on her face, strong pressure on her jaw, her temple, on both sides. “That’s exactly, I’m not sure,” she says. “Everywhere there was just pain.”
Sometimes the word “torture” falls
According to the police, what Linde describes, sounds like a “nervous press technique.” She herself calls it “pain in the clutch.” Both names approximately mean the same thing: pens that mainly come from martial arts, and use parts of the police as mandatory means. Then officials press their fingers from below to the nasal septum or on the lymph nodes. Methods for arrests are used or when the police, as in the case of Linda, cleanses the seats. The pain is intended in order to affect, for example, to remove yourself from the seat block.
Managing whether the police are allowed. Scientists -Jourists: reminiscent inside, pain -handrails are disproportionate, there is no legal basis, and pens that cause only pain are absent. Sometimes even the word “torture” falls. But the situation is not legal.
This year, two administrative courts dealt with trials against the so -called pain this year and came to various judgments. The Ansbach District Court rejected the lawsuit in February, the Berlin Administrative Court announced the application of technologies disproportionate in a month. Both times, climate activists complained that they were removed from the blockade of the seat using pain.
In Dresden, police units are held in the city center along the road traffic in Dresden on the day of February, when Mila Linda demonstrates against the right extremists. Between the Nazis and the counter -dramatic: according to the Ministry of the Interior there are civil servants, more than 2000 of them are deployed from nine federal states. In general, the police operation is calm. Nevertheless, Mila Linda is not the only one who reports on the pelvis of pens that mainly cause pain.
Almost no one dares to complain
There are no permissible numbers. The handle on the face of Mila Linda will not appear in any database. Does she consider it disproportionate, but legally acted against this? “This is hopeless,” the activist believes. The danger is more to independently have a procedure on the neck. Other injured people look like a basin.
But not only numbers, but also a comprehensive legal assessment of technology is absent. Dorothy Moser presented a doctoral dissertation on this issue in 2021. This is one of the few scientific works on this issue. In its investigation, the Moser came to the conclusion: “The methods of nervous pressure are an unacceptable measure of the police and can violate the human rights.”
The protest against the “memorial march” of neo -Nazis in the capital of the Saxon state Dresden accompanied the left parliamentary member Julian Nagel as a parliamentary observer. With one of the blockade, about 200 people were sitting on the street. All of them remained on the asphalt when the police asked them. Then the officials began to receive activists: pull it out of the blockade inside. They declared pain, pressed against faces and twisted hands. Only a few stood on their own.
Film show: At that time, as some were, in the visible one, scattered without pain, others howled loudly. With a distorted face, a man with loud sobs squeezed out: “I’m already running!” Glasses glided under her nose. Two civil servants clearly pulled their wrists when they took them from the blockade. “Almost done,” said one of the soothing tone. Then another east sounded.
Presumably proportionally
Two days later, Nagel asked the state government in a small request to which the police used nervous or pain methods. The Minister of Internal Affairs Armin Schuster replied: the locksmiths: inside they kept together or subsequently caught on. In such cases, this was impossible, so it was necessary to “target and short -term use of pain”. This is proportional.
Similarly, the responsible police department Dresden speaks of a basin about the operation. In principle, “strict standards” of proportionality are applied. Present officials will check everyone.
Julian Nagel doubts the proportionality of the mission in Dresden. Individual civil servants were “frantic” against the activist: inside ”and did not prevent pens intensively protest,” the state parliament commented. The blocks of seats behaved peacefully. But what about the proportionality of pain?
In his decision, the Berlin Administrative Court gave an answer to this question. If a civil servant: can dissolve the blocks of seats with other agents inside, nervous printing methods are not proportional.
Violence becomes normal
21-year-old activist Lars Ritter sued. In April 2023, he went on the road with about 40 activists: the last generation inside to block the automobile traffic. The video show how the policeman warned the knight, if he does not dare, he will not be able to chew and swallow for several days.
When the climate activist remained unchanged, the officer grabbed under his jaw, pressing, the second policeman twisted the knight’s hand. Scream. In the end, the officers wore an activist on a twisted hand and on their feet from the street.
Knight complained and understood. The decision says that there were enough emergency services in place to simply carry the knight. These would be softer obligatory means. The activist did not fight against the police. Nevertheless, according to media reports, the presiding judge Wilfried Peters emphasized the oral verdict that the decision could not be generalized. The acceptability of pain “has“ no doubt ”. According to the judge, pain in the methods of nervous press is not a real goal, but means for this purpose.
Hannah Espin Gray sees that pain is not a goal of nervous pressure methods. She is a researcher in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Law of Goethe University in Frankfurt and explores violence among police officers. While the pain is caused as a production, for example, “pain is an actual measure in the case of“ nervous pressure methods, ”she says.
And this is exactly what is legally problematic, because this measure can be understood only to a limited extent in accordance with the rules of immediate coercion. An interested person does not leave the very pain, but out of fear of further pain. “Therefore, it can be discussed whether this is violence in the form of torture or inhuman treatment in some cases.”
Another problem that Espin Grau criticizes: nervous printing methods help ensure that police officers are perceived by violence as normal. The pain will cause little efforts, and the pens left several visible consequences. The obstacle is respectively low. However, contrary to the perception of the police, the pain is massive, as well as the use of violence.
And the pens also not only influenced the interested activist: inside Sarah, Ahmad notes. She works at the University of Tubingen as a researcher in the chairman on conditional law, international law, constitutional tourism and human rights, as well as the legality of pain in the context of the Assembly Law. Citizens: As a result, other political meetings were scared. This “frightening effect” is an episode, which should not occur in the community of the community, ”Ahmad explains.
In the following days, Mila Linda told friends about protests in Dresden and what she experienced. For processing. Some were in Dresden with her, others were not. She believes that it is important not to shake away, but still remains able to act. Will she try to block Neazi in Dresden next year? “If this is somehow possible, yes.”
