Translated by Nicolai Sennels with help from the excellent Danish/Swedish blog
Snaphanen.dk - from "
Incident in Bonn from the perspective of a police officer":
I was present in Bonn yesterday (May 5th 2012) and I knew a
lot about stone-throwing from the Left-wing demonstration against
Pro-Köln in 2008. But what was thrown yesterday was incredible. That was
not the problem, though: shields were handed out early. But the way the
media reports completely ignore the new level of violence and only
focus on the police officers injured by bottles and stones makes me
sick.
I do not care how or why the pro-NRW demonstration was allowed. What
we repeatedly heard from our colleagues yesterday was that the cartoons
are completely legitimate and that they are also not prohibited. What
happened was exactly what the drawing portrays. It shows a bomb and only
a small spark is required to ignite it. Colleagues who were close to
the Salafis saw their glowing hatred, they could see murder in their
eyes.
Would anybody accept similar attacks and aggressiveness from the
Right or Left wing protesters? These groups are also constantly
provoked. Soccer fans, too. There are plenty of football fans who have
an almost religious respect for their club. But Muslims are always
forgiven for their violence, because violence is their mentality, it
will always be understated, and the focus centers on the troublemakers.
My goodness, I would have a lot of people on my conscience (mostly
Muslims, by the way) if I went berserk every time someone insulted my
mother. But no, we must always control our emotions, we're different, we
have a different mentality. They, however, are allowed to run amok.
When it was announced over the radio that while being attacked by
stones, a colleague had been wounded by gunfire, one does have his
thoughts. You look at the number of opponents, and your hand touches
your gun. You consider many times to draw it before your opponent does.
A few minutes later it was announced that we were attacked with
knives, and I thought a colleague would shoot the perpetrators to
prevent more crimes, which is what the law prescribes. In that case,
things would have run off-track and maybe have had a kind of purifying
effect, and the public would have noticed how serious the situation
were. But now people will soon forget it and belittle the whole thing.
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