Police psychologist criticises police tactics

This Monday the pitied and praised police earn severe criticism out of its own rows. After angry reports of an riot policeman about the exploitation of his colleagues also the police psychologist Georg Sieber from Munich speaks honestly.
In his interview with the radio program ‘Deutschlandfunk’ Sieber explained, that long before the concrete clashes in Rostock there was escalation and refers to both on martial and not de-escalating behaviour of the troops there, and also the broad and radical repressions before.

The co-founder of the Münchener Linie in the 1960s and ‘70s, which allowed psychological measures before coercive goes on: “There happened a lot of things in Rostock, which among police officers are called disproportional reactions.” Directed to state and police command he speaks about "ruler’s attitude" and “double standards” when now saying demonstrators would have escalate the situation. Sieber also considers that the escalation of the protests could have been politically volitional.

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