The Hessian civil servants' association opposes the plans of Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD), who, after riots and a mass brawl in a Berlin open-air pool, said in the "Bild" newspaper that she could imagine that the police would take care of security in swimming facilities in the future .
Catherine Iskandar
Responsible editor for the "Rhein-Main" department of the Sunday newspaper.
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The state chairman of the civil servants' association, Heini Schmitt, said on Thursday that this was not effective.
"The police are to be given more and more new tasks, although millions of overtime hours are already piling up every year in Hesse alone." Schmitt cited the control of corona requirements, the "lateral thinker" demonstrations and the "controls of the e-scooter glut" in the cities.
The swimming pool discussion is just another facet of a debate “that has been raised again and again since the riots on the Opernplatz in Frankfurt or the Schlosspark in Stuttgart: A small minority of people empower themselves and disregard laws.
The problem is consistent criminal prosecution," said Schmitt.
He also sees "social failings that cannot be remedied by the police".
He calls for "an honest debate as to why it is almost exclusively young men with a migration background who are so over the top."