G20 riots in Hamburg Three Bonn residents arrested
Bonn · At the G20 Summit in Hamburg, police took three young people from Bonn into custody. They belong to the youth organization of a public workers’ union. A participant said they did not have weapons and were not wearing face coverings. They are under investigation.
Following the heavy rioting at the G20 in Hamburg, two women and one man from Bonn are all in police custody. They belong to Verdi-Jugend, a youth organization of the public workers’ union Verdi. According to a managing director from the youth organization, Nils Jansen, they were arrested on Friday morning near a camping area and taken into police custody a few minutes after the demonstration began.
Jansen and about 20 Verdi members from Bonn wanted to participate in the blockade against the summit together with a group of 200 people. According to Jansen, the Bonn group was peaceful. The police had “surrounded” the protestors and attacked them with batons and water cannons. Asked if rioters were among them, Jansen replied, “From my perspective, the demonstration was attacked with no reason and people fled in panic.”
Accused of disturbing the peace
As Jansen reported, the police took around 70 members of the demonstration into custody, including 13 members of the Bonn group. All were accused of disturbing the peace. According to Jansen, nobody in the group had been armed or wearing a covering to hide their face. “The conditions in the detention center were humiliating,” he said.
Everyone had to strip off their clothing. Neon lights were on in the containers throughout the night. Every 20 minutes, police came and awakened the detainees, on the grounds that they were checking to see if they were still alive. “Even after the judge had cleared me, I had to stay another night,” explained Jansen. An arrest warrant was filed against the three Bonn residents. An urgent appeal was filed in response to free them from police custody.
On Tuesday, Hamburg police were not able to address the specific incidents. A spokesperson did confirm to GA, however, that normal procedure following arrest is to strip to the underwear and examine the whole body. The control visits throughout the night were routine and in keeping with regulations. The Verdi-Jugend organization marches regularly in demonstrations. In Bonn, individual members have repeatedly shown sentiment in line with left extremist groups. Orig. Text: Philipp KönigsTranslation: ckloep
