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Anti-terrorist police in Rage: We are tired of being abused!

The police are doing their best for our safety and still reap criticism. In an ARD show a policeman now burst the collar.

Police Chairman Wendt: "Policemen are tired of being abused by you!"
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Green politician Renate Künast and Rainer Wendt, chairman of the German police union will probably not become big friends in this life. The impression one had last night, when the two talked in the policy talk show 'hard but fair' in rage.

There was first a thesis of Künast's party colleague and leader of the Greens, Simone Peter, discussed. The party leader of the Greens had commented critically on police operations of the last New Year's Eve and received plenty of criticism: After the sexual assaults in the New Year's Eve 2015/2016 in Cologne last year's New Year more than 1, 000 men - mostly with a migration background - in German cities such as Hamburg or Berlin controlled by the police. Simone Peter accused the police of 'Racial Profiling'. Renate Künast admitted now in the policy talk show 'hard but fair', the use was good, one must question such operations nonetheless.

The chairman of the German police union, Rainer Wendt, then burst the collar: "The police are tired of being abused by you after successful missions! Amazed me that you did not ask at Amri, why you did not shoot him in the legs you were probably on vacation. "Künast had so last year to the ax-assassin in Würzburg expressed, which was also shot.

Police want tougher action

As the topic continued to fall on Anis Amri, the assassin at the Christmas market in Berlin, the talk show guests were largely unanimous: The assassination should have been prevented because the offender had been previously conspicuous. (Amri had 14 different identities and his asylum procedure was over.) Wendt then defended the police ; this is powerless when it comes to measures such as listening, monitoring and deportation. The judiciary alone decides on such measures. Wendt called for a harsher judiciary and more stringent punitive measures: "I want to make more lifelike decisions possible. If a gang of robbers organized in a band gets away with a few months' probation, that is not a rule of law. That's a joke and not criminal justice, but social education. "

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