The Bremen health authority is considering cancelling the vaccination sequence for AstraZeneca, following the example of Bavaria and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

The reason is the reluctance of many faced with the vaccine from AstraZeneca, spokesman Lukas Fuhrmann told the regional daily Weser-Kurier on Thursday.

It is therefore conceivable to make an open offer to all under 60-year-olds – that is, a vaccination with AstraZeneca without an invitation or appointment. However, this would only be considered if there was more vaccine from AstraZeneca than people over 60 years of age entitled to vaccinate.

“AstraZeneca is not banned for people under 60,” said Fuhrmann. The Standing Vaccination Commission only recommends thorough medical information. There is still a shortage of vaccines. Therefore, the right to vaccination does not include the right to choose the vaccine from a particular manufacturer.

Bavaria no longer prioritizes AstraZeneca vaccination either because it says it wants to use the AstraZeneca vaccine more widely than before.

In Bavarian medical practices, the vaccine can also be administered to people under the age of 60 regardless of the prioritization, says Bavaria’s Minister of Health, Klaus Holetschek. Since April 19, AstraZeneca has only been used in general and specialist practices in Bavaria.

In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania too, all age groups can now be vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine, regardless of their prioritization. For people under 60 years of age, however, detailed advice from the vaccinator is necessary before the injection, as the Ministry of Health announced in Schwerin on Wednesday.

This means that AstraZeneca can be administered in the vaccination centres, by mobile teams or in the doctor’s offices, regardless of age or the sequence of vaccinations.

“This way, general practitioners also have the opportunity to make the vaccine available to a wider range of patients,” said Minister Harry Glawe (CDU), according to a statement.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/04/24/bremen-considering-easing-vaccination-sequence-for-astrazeneca/

Smashing windows, setting fire to things and defecating in the church: The incidents in the parish church in Friesenheim (photo above) have increased again in recent weeks. The parish has now called in the police.

The Catholic parish of Friesenheim is stunned. For weeks now, the parish church in Oberschopfheim has once again become the target of vandals. “Before Easter, matches were set on fire in St Leodegar’s church. Sacrificial candles were burnt, burnt matches were spread in the church interior and a pew and a seat cushion were burnt,” says parish priest Steffen Jelic in a press release.

But that was not all: on April 5, two windows of the toilet facility below the church were smashed with stones, “which we reported to the police”, said Jelic. Then, on Monday, the cleaning staff discovered that an unknown person had defecated inside the church near the bookstall and had also urinated on the church wall. “The stench had already been noticed the day before by our sacristan, who was unable to discover the source,” said Father Jelic.

The church congregation has drawn the attention of the Friesenheim municipality to this violation of the rules. “It would be extremely regrettable if we had to close the church during the day because of these incidents.” The church is often visited by believers for personal prayer, who then also light sacrificial candles there.

So far, the parish has decided against a general closure in case of such offences. “However, we are powerless in the face of such goings-on. In future, we will now close the church earlier in the evening,” says Pastor Jelic. In addition, the Lahr police station has assured us that they will increase their patrols in the district.

In Oberschopfheim, the vandalism of parish facilities has a recent history. Almost exactly two years ago on April 8, the toilet facilities to the parish hall were destroyed. Above all, the extent of the brutality with which the unknown persons acted caused horror. Damage amounting to several thousand euros was caused at the time.

Windows were smashed, toilets torn from their anchors or washbasins from the wall. Rain gutters were smashed and shutters on the parish hall were smashed. The toilet facilities were out of order for several months.

In addition, there was the destruction of five outdoor lamps, which are located on the passageway from the streets Kirchstraße to Oberdorfstraße. In addition, littering is an offence that runs like a red thread through the picture on the outside of the church.

Information about criminal offences can be given to the police station in Lahr by calling 07821/ 27 70. In Friesenheim, the municipal office for public order is responsible for administrative offences by calling 07821/6 33 72 55.

https://www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de/inhalt.friesenheim-vandalen-wueten-im-gotteshaus.61337c74-0246-4385-856d-f8ec1513fea7.html

A man slaughtered sheep in the Muslim halal way on a neglected farm in Lower Bavaria. He is now being investigated for violating the Animal Welfare Act, as the police announced on Friday. The 64-year-old had slaughtered a sheep on the “dilapidated” farm in Neuhaus am Inn (Passau district) for the month of Ramadan – in other words, slaughtered it without anaesthesia. During a check, officers found the disembowelled animal, various knives, sharpening tools and butchering utensils. Slaughtering in the Muslim halal way is forbidden in Germany, but can be authorised for religious purposes. Strict hygiene requirements must be met for this.

Because the man had already slaughtered sheep last year, according to the police, the officers checked him on Thursday. The police and the veterinary office then took 55 other sheep and two lambs that the man kept on the farm away from the property.

https://www.rtl.de/cms/mann-schaechtet-schafe-auf-verwahrlostem-hof-4747027.html?outputType=amp

Almost four years after the disappearance of the Syrian refugee girl Mezgin (†16), Judge Sebastian Geis acquitted her father Hashem N. (46) of murder suspicion on Thursday (22 April) at 3 pm. (46) from suspicion of murder: “In case of doubt for the accused! Yet after the six-week trial at the Aschaffenburg Regional Court, it was clear to all observers that no one had denied the fun-loving schoolgirl’s right to live more than her own father.

“In Syria, such women would not survive for long,” the accused said, according to witnesses, about his daughter’s sexy clothes and the 23-year-old boyfriend who had allegedly deflowered Mezgin.
On May 4, 2017, Hashem N. told his wife he was picking Mezgin up from the vocational school in Aschaffenburg. She was last seen by her teacher at 11.20 a.m., and a Whatsapp message from a friend at 11.37 a.m. she no longer read. That same evening, her father reported her missing. According to the officers who took the report, he seemed unconcerned – in the days that followed, he did not try to call his daughter on the mobile.

The police had long known about the violent past of the man who, according to witnesses, had already committed murder in Syria: On May 17, 2017, he was to stand trial for mistreating his daughter at the Aschaffenburg District Court. Jörg Albert (44), of all people, became the officer in charge of Mezgin’s missing person case. He testified in the trial: “A year before, I interrogated Mezgin because she had been abused by her father. She said she did not want to return to her family. If her father found out where she was, he would kill her.”

Nevertheless, there was a series of mishaps that led to the acquittal of the father four years later: the location data of his mobile phone could no longer be read out. His son Abdallahed (then 13) fooled the CID, first saying he did not know what had happened to his half-sister, but then saying he had been forced by him to stab Mezgin.

However, when a walker accidentally found Mezgin’s decomposed body in a concrete shaft in the forest near Haibach on December 9, 2017, there were no stab wounds and no other cause of death could be determined. The N. family’s home was only 650 metres away from the concrete shaft, witnesses had seen Hashem walking at the place where the body was found – and even his wife now told the CID: “I believe he committed the crime.”

Hashem N. had long since absconded to Turkey at that time: After being sentenced to nine months in prison for mistreating Mezgin, he was supposed to appear at the prison on June 2, 2018. An inspector had previously taken away his passport because of the threat of escape, but overheard Hashem N. talking on the phone about his disappearance and saying about Mezgin’s fate: “She disappeared like salt in boiling water.

On the morning of June 2, Hashem N. lured Mezgin’s friend Sheko R. (23), into the raft harbour on the Main and stabbed him in the neck. Afterwards he disappeared – and assured the tabloid BILD in a telephone conversation from Istanbul that he had nothing to do with the disappearance of his daughter.

It took until October 2020 for the investigators to bring Hashem N. back to Germany. But he will not have to remain in custody here for too long: Only for the attempted murder of Sheko R. did the judges sentence him to eight years and nine months in prison on Wednesday. Because of the prison conditions in Turkey, the year in the cell there will be counted twice. In addition, Hashem N. must pay 6,000 euros in damages to his victim. Jürgen Bundschuh, the public prosecutor, commented on the unsatisfactory outcome of the trial: “The rule of law must endure this.

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Lately there have been repeated reports of people who develop Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated. Studies have now shown that almost a third of people over 80 years of age do not develop any significant protection against Covid-19 despite being vaccinated.

In Germany, the case in a retirement home in Leichlingen caused a stir, in which several people had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. But also in Austria, according to media reports, there are currently cases in which people test positive for SARS-CoV-2 despite a complete vaccination and also contract Covid-19.

The German news magazine Profil reported that an Austrian general practitioner recently stated that among his patients he had the “first two 80 plus patients with full immunization who are now symptomatically ill with Covid-19”. In addition, an 86-year-old is said to have suffered from Covid-19 and died despite being fully vaccinated with the BioNTech vaccine. Similar cases are known from the Vienna General Hospital.

But this is not the only news that again raises doubts about the usefulness of the vaccination campaigns against Corona: Certain SARS-CoV-2 variants can evidently escape an existing immunity through vaccinations or a past illness. If evolutionary pressure is exerted on the virus through medical measures such as vaccination, altered virus variants can can escape the medical “attack”. This is also known in the specialist field by the term “escape mutation”.

Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen examined the effectiveness of the vaccines from BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna against ten globally circulating virus mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen. The result of the study , which appeared in the journal Cell, showed that certain SARS-CoV-2 variants such as the British, Danish and others could be neutralized by antibodies. With the South African variant B.1.351 and the Brazilian P.1, the neutralization by antibodies was hardly effective. Study author Stefan Pöhlmann stated in a press release: “However, it is possible that a vaccination or a survived SARS-CoV-2 infection protects less well against the SARS-CoV-2 variants B.1.351 and P.1 than against the original virus.”

These findings are likely to raise doubts as to whether herd immunity can be achieved through vaccination. Pharmaceutical representatives such as Albert Bourla, the head of the US pharmaceutical company and vaccine manufacturer Pfizer, have already stated that vaccination is still one of the “most powerful tools” suggesting that a third dose of booster within twelve months and then an annual vaccination could be on the cards.

It is well known that no vaccination provides 100 percent protection. However, the pharmaceutical manufacturers have promised that the vaccines from BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca would be exceptionally effective. It was therefore assumed that this would rarely occur with the new Corona vaccines, since up to 95 percent of infections are to be prevented. In countries like Israel, which have a high vaccination rate, this was already be shown. But it also revealed that for a certain part of the population no protection is obtained through vaccinations – especially in the particularly endangered people from the high-risk group who are prioritized in the case of mass vaccinations.

Strong evidence of this is provided by a preliminary study by virologists at the University Hospital Düsseldorf, whose expert opinion is still pending. The scientists analysed blood samples from 176 people, of whom 93 were younger than 63 years and 83 were older than 80 years. All subjects had received full vaccination with the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. Both after the first and after the second vaccination, the virologists analysed the proportion of IgG and neutralizing antibodies.

The results, however, were rather sobering: the younger test participants had stable antibody titers, but around 31 percent of the subjects in the over 80-year-olds had not produced any neutralizing antibodies. According to the study author Ortwin Adams, head of virological diagnostics in Düsseldorf, one of the weaknesses of the study is that they only examined part of the immune response, but not the cellular defence in the form of so-called T cells: “We did not measure the cellular immunity, only the antibodies. However, the two usually correlate.”

The cellular immune response is likely to decrease with age. According to the study, almost a third of the high-risk group did not develop complete protection against SARS-CoV-2 despite a full vaccination. Although only one vaccine has been investigated, it can be assumed that vaccinations with other vaccines will produce similar results.

In this case, however, the problem seems to be neither the specific vaccine nor the mutations against which it might be less effective, but rather a phenomenon called immunosenescence: With increasing age, the functionality of the immune system declines, older people become infected more easily, and so too vaccinations generally do no work well in these cases.

Although the phenomenon of immunosenescence has been known in medicine for decades, it has only been an issue in the Corona crisis since the beginning of mass vaccinations. One of the reasons for this is probably that people over 80 years of age, who belong to the particularly endangered age group, were significantly underrepresented in the clinical studies prior to the emergency approval of the vaccines, or all people from 65 to over 80 years of age were often grouped together.

According to Adams, it is important to be educated that people can still get infected despite being vaccinated. “Experience from all countries with a high vaccination rate suggests that serious cases and deaths will decrease significantly as a result. But you have to know that you can possibly become infected despite being vaccinated.”

According to Adams, it may be necessary for seniors to need a third vaccination as early as the fall to keep their antibody levels as high as possible.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/04/23/more-and-more-covid-19-cases-despite-full-corona-vaccination/

The number of illegal migrants who arrived in Italy via the Mediterranean Sea more than doubled in 2021 compared to the same period last year. As of April 20, the Italian Ministry of the Interior registered nearly 8,600 arrivals. In the previous year, authorities reported less than 3,300 individuals in this period, while two years ago, it was around 650.

More than 1,200 immigrants said they were Tunisians, and approximately the same number of people said they came from the Ivory Coast. Another 930 people claimed to emigrate from Bangladesh, stated the Italian Interior Ministry. A little more than 1,200 people were unaccompanied minor refugees.

According to current statistics from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the central Mediterranean route is the most frequently used one, followed by the western one from Morocco to Spain. On the other hand, migrants use the route via Turkey the least in recent months.

The professor of international relations at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, assumes that this has something to do with the political situation in the countries of origin.

“In Libya, the departures are reduced to zero in the case of two conditions: if there is total control of the territory by the militias or, on the contrary, if there is total anarchy,” Parsi told the Il Giornale daily on Tuesday.

In the first case, the militias would prevent the boats from embarking, while in the second case, the uncertainty would stop migrants from heading to departure ports. At the moment, neither the first nor the second case applies in Libya.

“A new government has now been installed in Tripoli, and that in itself is a good thing. But the new authorities are not yet able to control the area. Hence, the wave of departures for Italy,” explained Parsi, warning that this could last well beyond the summer months as experience shows that the number of boat crossings increases significantly during this time of year.

In the east, the conflict between Greece and Turkey with the increased presence of military ships has helped deter asylum seekers.

“In the west, Spain and Morocco are continuing their traditional policy of control,” noted Parsi.

In the maritime route to Italy, the migration flows, therefore, ultimately have a natural outlet. The Italian government must soon enforce the renewed agreement with Tripoli and strive for a joint EU strategy, experts say.

The public prosecutor’s office in Agrigento in Sicily, which often has to deal with illegal immigration, assumes, however, that departures from Tunisia could also increase significantly, Il Giornale reported.

In January, the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) forecast that the coronavirus pandemic would intensify migration pressure on Europe.

“In the EU, you get vaccinated for free. That is very attractive for refugees from Africa, Latin America, and Asia. That is why we expect an increase in illegal immigration,” explained the former Austrian Foreign Minister and ICMPD Director General Michael Spindelegger to the Handelsblatt daily. Another factor is the global economic crisis.

“In many countries, economic hopes are falling. Therefore, the pressure to emigrate will increase,” added Spindelegger.

https://rmx.news/article/article/italy-experiences-surging-illegal-migrant-numbers

At the end of March an American journalist Brenna T. Smith published a controversial article which consisted of revealing the personal data of people who took part in the storming of the US Capitol on January 6.

Some of these people are still trying to raise money for lawyers through crowdfunding, but Brenna swiftly counteracted their move by calling them “extremists”. In the USA Today article, she called for the banning of such people from crowdfunding platforms, leaving them without any opportunity of raising money in order to hire lawyers and legal representatives.

The main reason the American journalist is behaving this way, is that these people hold views she does not share. They are “right-wing” and “alt-right”, and therefore should be denied the opportunity to get highly qualified and therefore expensive legal council.

Smith’s Twitter bio mentions that she previously worked for Bellingcat. Moreover, Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins was one among the first to support her in her fight against the Capitol protesters’ attempts to seek legal protection.

Higgins defended the journalist from criticism, saying that what she was doing had nothing to do with doxxing.

At the same time, many observers noted that Brenna Smith and Bellingcat supported the Black Lives Matter protests and were not opposed to their participants raising money for themselves. Now, however, they want to deprive the protesters at the US Capitol of the same opportunity.

According to some experts and commentators, Smith and Higgins is simply doing what they typically do: Bellingcat is known in particular for his shameless ideological bias and double standards.

“Some of the worst Antifa media ghouls work/have worked for Bellingcat, which is a CIA funded disinformation outfit. The ‘journalist’ Brenna T. Smith trying to deny Proud Boys and patriots their right to a legal defense was piped into the USA Today and soon the New York Times from there. The insufferable Antifa weasel Robert Evans is still at Bellingcat,” Eric Striker, an American journalist and blogger, wrote on his Telegram.

Even Glenn Greenwald who was the co-funder of the news organization Intercept which provided similar content as Bellingcat, was forced to acknowledge that “the only purpose of the Smith’s article was to pressure and shame tech companies to do more of blocking against these ‘criminal defendants’ from being able to raise funds for their legal fees, and to tattle to tech companies by showing them what techniques these indigent defendants are using to raise money online”.

The case of Brenna Smith is significant not only because it demonstrates the ideological bias of mainstream Western media and pseudo-independent “investigators” like Bellingcat. This case shows that the activity of such groups such as Bellingcat is dangerous for rights and freedoms in the West. Brenna Smith used to work for Eliot Higgins and was guided in her first “investigation” for USA Today by the same principles which were accepted by Bellingcat. However, until recently, Bellingcat had mostly been investigating Russians, and therefore the question of compliance with ethical standards or even legal norms of law were not raised in the West.

For example, in the investigation into the “poisoning” of Alexey Navalny, Bellingcat constantly refered to the information from the “sources” who had provided Bellingcat with personal data from certain people (Bellingcat stated that these people were employees of the Russian state security institutions). These “sources” provided illegally obtained data. Either they were stolen by order of Bellingcat, or Bellingcat bought stolen data. However, the illegal origin of the information does not embarrass Bellingcat as their sacred aim is to expose the Russian state.

Besides the questionable ethical side of the investigation and blatant violation of the law, the data which Bellingcat had obtained from “sources” has one more significant flaw. It is impossible to verify it.

This applies, for instance, to the case of the murder of Chechen Islamist Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin in 2019. After having carefully read all the testimonies of Bellingcat, it turns out that the investigators pass off their assumptions as facts. These are based on references to anonymous sources with access to anonymous databases and some photos and scans of documents, the reliability of which cannot be verified, or to metadata, which have allegedly been changed. And this metadata was either obtained illegally, or there was no metadata at all, or it could have been forged.

All the arguments of Bellingcat are based on the use of “sources” and closed databases, as well as on mobile phone billing. However, the billing can also be faked. And the databases need to be verified, witnesses need to be heard in order to confirm the relevance and reliability of the provided information. There is no other way to confirm the data.

Another point about Bellingcat’s questionable sources is a fact that these sources are never named. An interesting situation came up when Bellingcat’s investigator Christo Grozev claimed that he had been a close witness for the prosecution at the Khanhoshvili murder trial in Berlin. His perhaps imaginary “sources”, not himself, had witnessed the Islamist being killed by the Russian state.

According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Groziev even candidly revealed that he had used “bribery” for his investigation.

Thus, for now it is not just a nameless Russian which is being put on trial in Berlin, but an effort to legitimize the dubious methods used by this organization.

Doubtful, unverifiable information resulted in heated discussions in German court, but in response Bellingcat quickly published data from the Ukrainian special services, which allegedly confirmed his version of events. Thus, on the basis of Bellingcat’s assumptions allegedly supported only by the data of a foreign special service (eager to blame Russia for everything), a court decision could be made. After this precedent on the basis of unreliable data, thrown in from Bellingcat and other kindred organizations, it might become possible to convict anyone using “closed witnesses”. And there is no guarantee that these shady figures will be reliable.

Using Bellingcat’s material in court and referring to the investigators as “witnesses” is a convenient ploy for the prosecution in Germany, which itself could not find arguments to justify the connection between Russia and the person accused in the murder of Khangoshvili. The prosecution would have been forced to reveal its sources in court or admit that they had no evidence. However, with references to the authority of Bellingcat, and investigators being allowed to cite their mysterious sources in Russia, no event can be verified. It also allows for legalizing a possible leak of unverifiable intelligence information, which due to its illegal origin (hacking, wiretapping, surveillance) cannot be used in court as evidence. However, thanks to Bellingcat this unreliable information can now be laundered, much like dirty money.

The situation with the trial on Khangoshvili’s murder opens up the possibility of breaking laws in order to spy on Russians or throw in evidence convenient for a foreign intelligence outfit. Soon, such private agencies or under-cover secret services will legitimize surveillance of dissenters in Europe as well as the USA.

It is worth mentioning that Bellingcat is already actively engaged in fighting the opponents of the current western liberal mainstream represented by the supporters of QAnon and the opponents of radical extremist Antifa. They are also accusing participants of the Capitol assault of “Nazism”.

Another example is Alan Swinney, a participant in the August 2020 Portland protests. He is now under arrest on charges related to August 22 and because of an earlier rally on August 15. He has pleaded not guilty to any of the charges, including assault, attempted assault and unlawful use of a weapon. However, Bellingcat published an investigation on February 10 allegedly confirming the charges against Alan Swinney. As a result, he remains in custody.

The fact is that the violence during the protests in the US had been mutual: both from Antifa as well as right-wing activists. However, Bellingcat has never accused the Antifa movement; instead he is actively working against their opponents.

A suspicious example of cooperation between Antifa terrorists and Bellingcat is the investigation “Far-Right Group’s Plans for Portland Violence”, where Bellingcat once again openly relied on “sources” who are more likely to be spying provocateurs.

“Bellingcat has acquired several months of chat logs from the Patriot Coalition of Oregon, a network of pro-Trump, pro-police activists. These chat logs were provided by an infiltrator affiliated with the antifascist collective Eugene Antifa. We were also given login information for the infiltrator’s account on GroupMe, a secure messaging app owned by Microsoft,” Bellingcat investigators Robert Evans and Jason Wilson openly admitted.

Bellingcat is supported by mainstream NGOs and Western governments. The evidence is always revealed in the same fashion: whatever Bellingcat is doing or investigating, the mainstream media in Western countries applaud him without fail and governments as well as NGOs routinely shower him with awards and other forms of encouragement. A curious example is the recent inclusion of Bellingcat into the long list of the Orwell Prize. It is the Orwell Foundation, which gives this prize. Its chair – Lord Ken Macdonald QC – is an embodiment of the British establishment. He is a former defence lawyer and the Director of Public Prosecutions. “His clients have included international media organisations, prominent British banks, major foreign defence corporations,” reads his official bio on the foundation’s website.

Another example is the Machiavelli Award, which Bellingcat received in 2020. The board of this organization includes Wim van der Weegen – the Director of Communications at the Ministry of Defence of Netherlands, Marjan Hammersma – the Secretary-general of Media and Culture at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Dutch government and several deputies from mainstream Dutch parliamentary parties.

And that is does not include the grants from the National Endowement for Democracy, funded by the US Congress, or Open Society Foundations. It is known that Bellingcat receives money from the British Foreign Office and is also a partner of an Open Information Partnership funded by Foreign Office. Bellingcat is also a partner in the Zinc Network’s UK FCO-funded EXPOSE Consortium.

Thus, it is blindingly obvious that Bellingcat and similar structures act in the interest of the globalist liberal establishment. The European and American activists who have patriotic position are the internal enemy for such structures, which are tightly connected to the Deep State mechanisms. And, as judged from the behaviour of Bellingcat, which is actively attempting to subvert courts, one should expect that fresh repression against opponents of left-liberal globalism will be wholly supported and promoted by Western investigative organizations.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/04/22/the-bellingcat-phenomenon-how-to-declare-a-war-against-free-speech-and-be-awarded-for-advances-in-journalism/

Men from a well-known extended family went on the rampage at the Charité hospital in Berlin – triggering a police operation. According to information from the newspaper Tagesspiegel, the men are members of the Abou Chaker clan of Palestinian origin. According to the report, the men threatened the security guards and possibly also hit them. According to unconfirmed information, they also attacked a senior doctor.

The incident happened on Tuesday on the campus in the Mitte district.A police spokesperson said there had been a police operation at the Charité rescue centre in Mitte: About ten men allegedly tried to enter the hospital shortly before 5 p.m. on Tuesday to say goodbye to a deceased relative.

Due to infection control, visits are currently only permitted in exceptional cases. This has applied – with interruptions – to all clinics since the beginning of the pandemic. Eventually, according to a person familiar with the matter, the situation calmed down – the men were then allowed access individually to say the final farewell to their deceased relative. Charité circles said they were considering filing a complaint.

Time and again, men from the clan milieu have attacked not only police officers and employees of the public order office, but also health care workers. In addition to paramedics who are on duty all over the city, in-patient staff in the clinics are also attacked.

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/polizei-einsatz-vor-berliner-notaufnahme-maenner-des-abou-chaker-clans-randalieren-an-der-charite/27118970.html