Schanzenfest
The Schanzenfest has been an annual left-wing alternative street festival in the Schanzenviertel in Hamburg since 1988 . Every year the festival attracts thousands of visitors. The festival ended in recent years with clashes with the police and riots.
Firmly
On the weekend of the Schanzenfest there is a large flea market, various culinary offers, street artists and alternative music on the shoulder blade and in the surrounding streets. The festival has been taking place unannounced since 2004, as the organizers consider the city's requirements to be unreasonable.
Riots
Since 2003, following the usually peaceful festival, there have been riots between violence-oriented people and the police . The violence is directed primarily against banks and shops as well as against the police themselves, who oppose the riots with a large number of water cannons.
Since 2011, the district has been declared a danger area by the police during the festival , which entitles the police to search or detain people from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. without specific suspicion and to issue warnings.
Celebrations after years
2009
In July 2009, 1,000 rioters fought in street battles with the police, in which the police officers were attacked with bottles, fireworks and Molotov cocktails, and 67 rioters were subsequently arrested. Since the party in July 2009 could not be brought to an end in the opinion of the organizers because of the police operation, it was continued in September 2009. The second edition of the festival in 2009 also ended with a major police operation after a police station was attacked and there was further damage to property.
2010
In 2010, the Schanzenfest was only approved by the responsible authorities shortly before the day of the event. The balance of the day: 42 arrests and 14 injured.
2011
According to the organizers, there was a record attendance at the festival in 2011. The riots after the Schanzenfest in 2011 were not as drastic as had been feared in advance. The SPD domestic politician Juliane Timmermann praised residents who had intervened themselves to prevent rioting. Kai Voet van Vormizeele (CDU) saw the designation of a "danger area" as the key to success. According to NDR, the police had clearly held back during the 2011 Schanzenfest. At around 10.30 p.m., according to the police, some young people first threw firecrackers in front of the Rote Flora and set fire to garbage bags. Passers-by first put out the fire. Masked people tried to smash the doors and windows of the Hamburger Sparkasse branch on their shoulder blades with a battering ram and a hammer . 2,100 police officers were on duty. There were 30 arrests and two police officers were injured.
2012
After an initially peaceful course, it initially looked as if the Schanzenfest would end without riots, unlike in previous years. During the day around 10,000 people celebrated in a relaxed atmosphere with music and a flea market. There were no incidents. The motto of the festival was “Capitalism, Crisis, Resistance: Schanzenfest in Greek”.
In the evening around 30 to 40 people were busy at the "traditional destination" Sparkasse branch on the shoulder blade. They tried to break open the door. When the officers tried to clear the street, there were riots. It was not until late Saturday evening that firecrackers and fireworks were ignited in front of the Rote Flora, and some garbage was set on fire. Local residents tried to chase away the troublemakers.
During the riot - as the taz wrote on September 7, 2012 - the knife attack on two activists of the Rote Flora was evidently the result of right-wing autonomous nationalists . Furthermore, the taz writes: plain clothes police observed the incidents. "It was different than usual," says a civil investigator from the taz. It wasn't just the typical riot tourists who were there. "They were dressed like hardcore autonomists, but didn't behave like left-wing autonomists," said one official. "There weren't any people we knew from the scene either, and they don't light their flora themselves," he says. "We had the impression that they were autonomous nationalists, as in 2008 in Barmbek on May 1st ."
However, both the police, who stated through their spokesman: “We have no knowledge that autonomous nationalists were there”, as well as the protection of the state and the constitution protection, who also did not notice any nationalists or right-wing radicals, contradict this .
The police were on duty with 1,566 officers and had declared the area to be a large-scale "danger area". The police arrested six people.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Digitaz of July 16, 2009: A festival will come (accessed on September 17, 2009)
- ^ André Zand-Vakili: Randale: "Schanzenfest" ends in a wild street battle. In: welt.de . September 23, 2007, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Dozens of arrests: riots overshadow Hamburg's Schanzenfest (accessed on September 16, 2009)
- ↑ Digitaz of July 16, 2009: A festival will come (accessed on September 17, 2009)
- ↑ Spiegel-online from September 13, 2009: In the end came the water cannons (accessed on September 17, 2009)
- ↑ http://www.hotspot-hh.de/index.php/events/veranstaltungen/85-schanzenfest-42-festhaben-14-verletzt
- ↑ http://www.ndr.de/regional/hamburg/schanzenfest187.html ( Memento from September 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b [1] knife wounds at the Schanzenfest, attack from the right, taz from September 7, 2012