Attacks on Apollo Magazine reporters at AfD party conference in Erfurt – police operation under scrutiny
Reporters from Apollo Magazine were attacked at the AfD party conference in Erfurt. Video footage from Tagesspiegel shows that police were informed of the escalation via loudspeaker announcement minutes before the physical assault took place.
Attacks on Apollo Magazine reporters at AfD party conference in Erfurt – police operation under scrutiny
At the AfD federal party conference in Erfurt, journalists from Apollo Magazine were attacked and one of the reporters was kicked on the ground. The incidents raise the question of whether police should have intervened earlier.
Video footage from the Tagesspiegel editorial team shows that minutes before the physical assault, a loudspeaker announcement warned of the escalating situation. Nevertheless, the police forces did not intervene in time before violence was perpetrated against the media representatives.
The attacks occurred at the margins of a demonstration against the AfD party conference in Thuringia's state capital. The attacks on the press representatives are thus in the context of increasingly violent confrontations surrounding political assemblies in Germany.
Source: Tagesspiegel
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