The heavy, massive police station wagon drifts across the elegant park, crashes over a bump, loses a piece of the disguise and has almost reached the perpetrator. The video recordings of a police hunt on a 17-year-old in the middle-class Hamburg suburb of the Elbe is a symbolic return of a republic that has drifted into authoritarianism. The boy wanted to say goodbye to his friends with a hug. How could such nonsense come about? Whoever allows fear and panic or even stirs up, lowers the inhibition thresholds for actionism and drives a free society into psychotic overreactions.
Corona measures: Hunting scenes from Germany
2021-02-26T17:36:13.714Z
Police officers rush through a Hamburg park to catch a youth who was hugging friends without a mask. It is a new high point of a republic that has drifted into authoritarianism - and it scares us about what might still come our way.
Source: welt