Archiv // Texte // Press release on house search - 16.11.2006
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House search because of Israeli flag
The Saarland State Office of Criminal Investigation brings out the big guns: in the context of the investigation against a young man from Saarbrücken, who had protested against an anti-Semitic demonstration in July using an Israeli flag, officers of the State Office of Criminal Investigation (Landeskriminalamt – LKA) made a house search on Thursday, the 26th of October; they confiscated three computers and several data carriers.
As „Antifa Saar / Projekt AK“ has accounted several times, the LKA investigates a young man from Saarbrücken and two other people because of the accusation of having disturbed an assembly. This accusation dates from their protest against an anti-Israeli “peace” demonstration on July 24th 2006 in Saarbrücken, where they presented two Israeli flags. About 50 of the anti-Israeli demonstrators attacked the counter-protestors and hurt one of them by beating him into his face.
After having opened an investigation against one of the counter-protestors and cited him to an identity check, the LKA Saarland escalates this farce to a higher degree; they made a house search on October, the 26th at the suspected person’s house and confiscated two computers, a laptop and several data carriers, notes and documents.
Sarah Jost, spokesperson of Antifa Saar / Projekt AK, comments on this issue: “People who show or wear Jewish signs in public in Germany, not only have to look out for being beaten by violence-prone anti-Semites, but they also have to consider to be juristically pursued. Due to the fact that the Israeli flag means – according to the police in Saarland - a breach of the public order, an anti-fascist who showed his solidarity with Israel is robbed of his technical implements and made incapable of working, also according to his studies.”
Antifa Saar / Projekt AK evinces solidarity with the victim of this attack by the police and announces to take action with publicity effect against these scandalising activities by the LKA Saarland.
Jost continues: „The justification for the house search, authorised by a judge, is more than bloodcurdling. When the authorities argue that people who present the Israeli flag in public are responsible for the escalation - because they would have done it only for provocation - then the authorities are not part of the solution but of the problem. By the denial to see the anti-Semitic motivation of the attackers, the investigating authorities play down the assault and legitimatise it as an ‘understandable’ and ‘comprehensible’ reaction.”
ANTIFA SAAR / PROJEKT AK
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