Ahead of the Christmas shopping season, Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser insists on a knife ban. The minister of the failed government coalition called on the provincial authorities to strictly monitor compliance with the ban. Violation of the knife ban can result in a fine of up to 10,000 euros, wrote a Mercury.
Faeser’s direction is clear: “Zero tolerance,” he emphasized in an interview with Bild am Sonntag. The police will be present in many places to guarantee the safety of the Christmas markets and to check that the ban is being followed.
The knife ban is part of a wider security package passed in October to ban the use of knives at major events, public festivals, fairs and sporting events. This would also cover Christmas markets, public festivals and sporting events.
The Social Democrats (SPD), the recently failed coalition of the Greens and the Free Democrats (FDP), adopted the package of measures.
This strengthens the internal security of our country. In doing so, we provide an adequate response to the current threats posed by Islamist terrorism, anti-Semitism, right-wing and left-wing extremism.
– quotes Faeser in a statement published on the government’s website.
What do these measures achieve?
Many see the security package as a kind of symbolic policy, which may also result in innocent people being searched for no reason.
Bijan Moini, a staff member of the Society for Freedoms (GFF), described the idea of the Minister of the Interior as “a deep distrust of the population that everyone is suspected and exposed to the risk of being stopped, interrogated and searched by the police in most public areas.”
Source: magyarnemzet.hu
