Erfurt (dpa/th) - In view of the New Year's Eve riots in Berlin and other cities, the CDU parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament has called for a debate about the "lack of respect for the state". During the riots, police officers, firefighters and rescue workers were massively attacked, especially in Berlin. "The high proportion of migrants among the attackers must be named as such. Everything else is misunderstood tolerance and does not help to get the situation under control," said MP Stefan Schard, spokesman for migration policy in the CDU parliamentary group. One must also talk about "unregulated migration" and the failure of integration efforts.
"I don't just expect the responsible politicians to be dismayed, I expect crackdown," emphasized Schard. One should not beat around the bush and must call things by their proper name. Otherwise there is a greater risk that others will use what is happening "to cook their right-wing populist soup." "Anyone who thinks that as a guest in our country they have to attack and fight state institutions can no longer be welcome here. With a view to criminal asylum seekers, this also includes a deportation policy that also deserves its name."
The Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Herbert Reul (CDU), pointed out on Thursday that the New Year's Eve riots were not just a migration issue. Many of the alleged perpetrators were young and male. He has been pointing out for months that there is a problem with groups of young men with and without a migrant background, he said on Deutschlandfunk.
