Category: Politics

Ever since the murder of Nidal R., there has been talk about criminal clans. But organized crime is not the norm, says Neukolln’s integration commissioner Jens Rockstedt.

Police car in front of the now-removed mural of murdered Nidal R. at Tempelhofer Feld, September 2018 Photo: dpa

site: Mr. Rockstedt, according to many media reports, one could recently get the impression that all of Neukolln is virtually in the hands of "Arab extended families." Is that so?

For months, a 26-year-old Syrian had been illegally detained. After his death, sloppiness and structural racism are now coming to light.

Are the police and judiciary stonewalling in the case of the Syrian Ahmed A., who was unlawfully detained and died? Photo: dpa

A young person is dead. Amed A. sought protection in Germany. But under custody of the Federal Republic, the 26-year-old civil war refugee from Syria was fatally injured on September 17: In a fire in his cell at the correctional facility in Kleve in the Lower Rhine region, he suffered such severe burns that he died after a lung transplant on September 29 at the Bergmannsheil Accident Clinic in Bochum.

The only Palestinian candidate lost the election in East Jerusalem. He failed because of the boycott of his compatriots.

In the election in East Jerusalem there was a lower turnout than expected Photo: ap

Ramadan Dabash will not enter the Jerusalem City Hall. The only Palestinian candidate in Israel’s municipal elections failed due to the boycott of his compatriots. Palestinians in East Jerusalem gave in to pressure from the mufti. Sheikh Mohammed Hussein had declared a fatwa, a religious order, to boycott the elections.

The house project H48 fears for its existence and is looking for a third buyer

The old owner has sold the property to an unknown investor

In Neukolln, the next left-wing alternative space must fear for its existence. The sale of the house at Hermannstrabe 48 threatens the project space H48, which has existed here since 2006 and serves as a non-commercial place in the neighborhood for political meetings of feminist, anti-racist and anti-fascist groups and where lectures, film evenings and Kufa take place.

The Kunsthalle Bern is showing a show by the great painter Amelie von Wulffen: "Have you seen House of Cards?" What’s up with that?

Delicious ice cream and a piano: installation view of Amelie von Wulffen’s exhibition Photo: Gunnar Meier/Kunsthalle Bern

The arsenal of tastes and prejudices can soon be safely thrown into the corner. Sure: the homely kitschy farm cupboard, adorned with flower tendrils as well as preview bars of the Netflix series world, that is an already over-perfect image for the permanent escape from the world and the constantly overlapping round of images. But then very lovingly crafted miniature sculptures made of shells and stones take position there on the magnificent stone pedestal, a resigned apple is also there.

In Lower Saxony, police crack down on protesters even though they pay attention to protecting infection – but the police do not.

Little distance on a demo in Hannover on Easter Saturday Photo: Peer Hellerling

"Superspreader" are infected people who infect an above-average number of other people, for example doctors with close patient contact who know nothing about their infection, or children who find it difficult to keep a safe distance. Or even police officers, if they are without protective equipment, disregarding the safety distance, in large groups and come close to demonstrators.