Hesse's Interior Minister Poseck rejects the Berlin Left's demand to cease and desist

In the legal dispute with the Berlin Left, Hesse's CDU Interior Minister Roman Poseck says he has not issued the requested cease-and-desist declaration. «I stand by my statement. Anyone who denigrates police officers as clan criminals must expect my unequivocal reaction," he said in Wiesbaden.

Poseck had published a post on a video by the Left Youth on the ministry's Instagram channel and spoke, among other things, of a "clan problem of the Berlin Left". In a letter from a law firm, the ministry was asked to issue a cease-and-desist declaration by Friday (October 2).

The left sees equal opportunities violated

“The statement violates our client’s right to equal opportunities in political competition,” writes the law firm. In terms of content, the limits of official public relations work are clearly exceeded. The Hessian Ministry of the Interior responded by saying that the post dated September 27th did not violate the neutrality requirement. “This results from both the context and the content of the post.”

The Left was by far the strongest force in the Berlin election on September 20th. She wants to forge a coalition with the Greens and the SPD and appoint the governing mayor with her top candidate, Elif Eralp. The CDU suffered significant losses in the election.

Both the head of an Arab-born and partly criminal clan and a controversial pro-Palestinian activist are said to have been present at an election party for the Left in Neukölln. The Left Party leadership has stated several times that it is committed to Israel's right to exist and to the protection of Jewish life and that it has no proximity to organized crime.