Hasi video

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Original title Hasi video
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2018

A video that shows a scene of the riots in Chemnitz became known as Hasi-Video and under other names in August and September 2018 . It became the center of the debate about the President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen , after he had questioned the authenticity of the video.

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The 19 second long video shows a scene in Chemnitz Bahnhofstrasse near the Johanniskirche , on the afternoon of August 26, 2018. On that day, after a death the previous evening, of which two asylum seekers were accused, demonstrations and riots by hooligans and right-wing extremists broke out. The scene shows several men in the foreground and two other, dark-skinned men in the middle picture. They suddenly run backwards while a man from the front group runs after them. A woman's voice calls out “Bunny you stay here! You stay here!". The men running away are called “skin off”, “Kanaken” and “not welcome” and more.

One of the running away men, a young Afghan, filed a complaint on August 29 for the incident shown for bodily harm and property damage. According to their own statements, the two migrants had previously filmed the demonstration, against which some demonstrators had probably protested. Then the cell phone with a beer bottle was knocked out of the hand of one of them and broke. When both returned, people from the group of demonstrators shouted at them to "run away," which led to the scene in the video.

Creation and publication

The video was taken in portrait format and was probably captured by a cell phone. The authors are unknown. It was published by the non-author Antifa Zeckenbiss account on August 26th at 8:56 pm on Twitter and Facebook . The operators of the account had previously found it on a "patriotic platform", as they later state. The journalist Johannes Grunert had already reported on the incident four hours earlier. In the accompanying text, the scene is described as a “manhunt” by “Nazi hools”. The video was later shown throughout Germany in news about the riots in Chemnitz. The Saxon authorities also used the video for their investigative work, here it was referred to as the Hasi video .

Assessment by the President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution Maaßen and reactions

Shortly after it was published, rumors began to emerge that the video was a fake and older, but without any evidence. Hans-Georg Maaßen , President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , expressed doubts about the authenticity of the video in an interview in the Bild newspaper on September 7, 2018: He had “no evidence that the video circulating on the Internet was too this alleged incident is authentic ”, according to his“ cautious assessment ”there are“ good reasons ”for the fact that it is a matter of“ targeted misinformation ”,“ in order to possibly distract the public from the murder in Chemnitz ”. But he did not provide any evidence for this.

The evaluation of the video by Maaßen was contradicted from many sides and reference was made to other videos and testimonies that substantiate this or similar occurrences in Chemnitz. There are several other videos that document the attacks and hunts of a majority of right-wing extremist violent criminals on individual left-wing or foreign-looking people, days later the Saxon LKA reported 163 proceedings and 158 injured persons could be a fake ”, so it is also used for investigations.

After the sharp criticism of his statements from the opposition, coalition partners and the media, Hans-Georg Maaßen should explain his doubts about the video. He submitted a report to the Interior Ministry on September 11 and was questioned by the Interior Committee on September 12. Maaßen reiterated his criticism that the video was no evidence of a "hunt", but was cited as evidence of this by Chancellor Angela Merkel and government spokesman Steffen Seibert, among others . Although he did not mean that the video itself was fake, the authenticity and context of the video were not certain when it was distributed quickly, so its use was negligent. He also brought up the framing through the term “manhunt” and the unknown agenda of Antifa Zeckenbiss . At the time of his interview, however, his authority had not yet had an evaluation of the video and created it for the report and committee meeting. In a message that followed, Antifa Zeckenbiss justified the description as "manhunt" as a spontaneous description of what can be seen in the video. The controversy finally led to his dismissal and planned transfer as State Secretary, after massive criticism from politics and the public at this decision to a planned change as a special advisor to the Ministry of the Interior. After Maassen made further statements about the riots in Chemnitz in November 2018, he was put into temporary retirement with immediate effect .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Controversial video: What is known and what is not. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, September 7, 2018, accessed on October 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ This is how the Afghan refugees experienced the explosive situation . 11th September 2018.
  3. ↑ The one-sidedness of Hans-Georg Maaßen. In: Der Tagesspiegel. September 13, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c tagesschau.de: No evidence of falsification. In: faktenfinder.tagesschau.de. September 7, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b "We'll grab it". In: taz.de. September 7, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Hans-Georg Maaßen: President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution expresses doubts about the accusation of agitation . September 7, 2018.
  7. ↑ Focus online: Chemnitz riots: 163 proceedings, 158 victims, eleven of them foreigners.
  8. ↑ General Public Prosecutor's Office contradicts Maaßen , on tagesspiegel.de
  9. ↑ Claim without evidence. In: Spiegel Online. September 7, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Desperately looking for facts. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 11, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Maaßen relativizes statements about incidents in Chemnitz . September 10, 2018.
  12. ↑ Antifa Zeckenbiss defends himself against allegations of the constitution protection chief. In: Stern. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .