Tacheles at the square table?

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Federal Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has invited the chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, to a discussion on the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church at the end of March. She continues to stand by her proposal for a round table exclusively for the cases of abuse in the church. Bishops react angrily.

The atmosphere between the German Bishops' Conference and Federal Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP) remains tense. The bishops' conference reacted angrily Thursday to the public announcement by Max Stadler (FDP), parliamentary state secretary in the Justice Ministry, that the minister had invited the conference chairman, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, for the 25. March invited to talk. "The appointment of the minister has been made known to us through the media today. We do not have a letter so far," said the press spokesman for the bishops' conference, Matthias Kopp, in response to a question in Rome. The date has not been agreed with the Bishops' Conference. "Besides, the chairman is prevented from attending that day because of other commitments."Stadler meanwhile rowed back. The date for the talks is probably under consideration, but has not yet been set, he told the Catholic News Agency (KNA) in Berlin. The Ministry of Justice considers such a discussion to be sensible and therefore hopes for approval. The head of the Catholic Office in Berlin, Prelate Karl Justen, also emphasized that no date had yet been set. The same applies to the content of such a conversation, he said. However, he said, they are in discussion about a possible date. Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger advocates a round table solely to deal with abuse scandals in church institutions. In her view, this should also include possible compensation for victims of sexual abuse. Zollitsch rejects roundtable limited to church to include victims of non-church institutions. Instead, the bishops' conference welcomed the round table, which is broader in terms of topics and participation, to which the ministers Kristina Schroder and Annette Schavan (both CDU) have invited participants. Experts from all socially relevant areas are to discuss better prevention here. Relations between the Church and the Minister of Justice are currently strained. Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger accuses the church of covering up abuse cases within its own ranks and preventing a swift criminal investigation. At their plenary assembly, the Catholic bishops had in the meantime ultimatively called on the minister to withdraw her accusations of a lack of fidelity to the law on the part of the church.

"Round tables are not a panacea" Green Party politician Antje Vollmer has expressed skepticism about the establishment of a roundtable on child abuse. "Round tables are not a panacea for responding to heated debate," Vollmer warned in an epd interview in Berlin. The former vice president of the Bundestag moderates the Round Table for Children in Care, which has been in existence for a year now."My experience shows that a roundtable raises tremendous hopes that it may not be able to fulfill, even with the utmost effort," Vollmer said. Neither could the body redress past wrongs, nor satisfy justified needs for revenge, nor lift huge sums of billions of dollars. A roundtable is not a solution to problems, he said, but a "complicated, intensely working body".The round table on the cases of abuse in schools planned by Federal Family Minister Kristina Schroder and Federal Education Minister Annette Schavan (both CDU) is to meet for the first time on April 23. April meeting. Among others, representatives of churches as well as teachers' and social associations have been invited to attend. They are to develop preventive measures and a voluntary commitment by public institutions to clear rules of conduct in cases of abuse.

Deported due to political attitude or because of Corona?

Memorial for Alexis Grigoropoulos and Berkin Elvan in Exarchia. Image: Iaberis / CC BY-SA 4.0

The official reason is the deportation of a French anarchist "Danger for public health"; Some talks for political motives

After eight years stay in Greece, a French state-owner from Greece was deported to France. There was no legal proceedings and also no condemnation of the deported.

Nationwide assembly prohibition

Everything started with the assembly ban, which the police directorate Greece for the 6. Had pronounced December 2020. Just like the 17. November, in the vital memorial events and demonstrations for the anniversary of the bloody depressed student uprising of 17. November 1973 were forbidden, also for the 6. December with calling to the Corona Pandemic a nationwide assembly ban for more than three persons per decree of the police president Greece, Mikhail Karamalakis, explains.

The 6. December 2008 was the day at which the then 15-year Alexis Grigoropoulos with peer friends with the casts of Exarchia. The group celebrated the name day of Nikos Romanos, a friend of Grigoropoulos. She met a police patrol and one of the two officials, Epaminonda’s Korkoneas, pulled his service weapon and shot. Grigoropoulos was made dead. Weekly protests of Greek youth were the result. Korkoneas, because murder sentenced to a lifetime imprisonment, is now back on free fuv.

Even without the conventional major demonstration, numerous people wanted to lay down numerous people in the Pandemic Year at least a floral wall at the scene in Exarchia. There was a memorial stone for Grigoropoulos built. Theoretically, during the Lockdown Walking Walk allowed. The burgers must send an SMS with their personal information with their mobile phone and the code 6. After a reply of the system you can then leave your apartment for the walk.

The Burger Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis, a strict advocate of "Law and order"-Politics of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, had a coarse police attachment of 5000 officials for Athens. These should make sure exactly on the bill of assembly.

The police officers exclaimed the assembly ban over the authoritar, so she also took Maria Oshana, the manager of the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation in Athens, for a short time. Oshana had been hit together with a friend and with a floral wall in the hand in the near the memorial place.

Theoretically she had no law and no rule violated. Your obvious intention to take the flowers on the memorial stone ranged the officials for an arrest. Floral bonus lying there were gradually destroyed by another official and demonstrative. Even against press photographers and reporters, the police were not squeamish.

At the wrong time at the wrong place

The Frenchman, who is called in the Greek media only with the first name Errol, was on the 6th. December in Exarchia alone on the way. He Hyte Larm, went to this and hit a police patrol of the Delta Unit, who just arrested passers-by. He was also arrested. The reproach was "Distribution of the pandemic of the new coronavirus". A total of 374 arrests and 135 arrests existed on that day.

In the police preservation, Errol witnesses, as an eighte-year-old suffering suffered an epileptic seizure suffered. The Frenchman hurried to help with a lawyer as well. An hour after the incident, he was isolated from the others and spent in the deportation center in Petrou Ralli Strabe. From there he should as "Danger for public health" getting deported.

From there it was on the 10th. December into closed camps for immigrants in Amygdaleza. There, the Frenchman spent his time in isolation and without access to a telephone. He succeeded in a Cassiber.

In Amygdaleza, the deportation of the French and an entry ban were deported in rapidly and without legal support to 9. December 2027 decided. According to the statements in the Cassiber, Errol is considered "National and political danger" classy. On Saturday the 19. December was told him that he must be tested in terms of any coronavirus infection.

Instead of the doctor, the police drove him to the airport. There he was brought into handcuffs and accompanied by policemen of the anti terror unit into the plane to France. Neither his salaries nor his family were informed. The entire flight over the Frenchman was tied up with handcuffs. He made resistance and screamed.

At the landing in Paris, the Greek policemen overlooked the prisoner their French colleagues. After a horsed, in which the French police officers have been amazed on the approach of the Greeks.

The Frenchman was never convicted of law in Greece. He was the police known for his anarchist attitude and participation in demonstrations against the gold mining in Chalkidiki, as well as because of the support of the housekeeper scene in Thessaloniki and Athens. Therefore, the autonomous scene of Greece’s are voices that claim that deportation has less with the pandemic, but to do more with the political mind of Errol.

Jesuit priest Klaus Mertes misses consequences of the Catholic Church leadership even years after the abuse scandal was uncovered. There were "still some resignations due at the highest level," Mertes said.

The Jesuit had initiated the uncovering of the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in 2010. Mertes named the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Gerhard Ludwig Muller, in an interview with the "Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger". "What consequences has he drawn from his failure as bishop of Regensburg, where he readmitted to ministry an abusive priest who promptly went on to commit another act against children?" he asked. "Doesn't he realize that today he has a massive credibility problem as the person responsible for prosecuting the perpetrators of crimes?"

"Changes important for prevention"

There is still a lack of willingness to confront systemic and structural ies, criticized Mertes, the former head of the Jesuit-led Canisius College in Berlin. He referred in particular to the Church's sexual morality and its organization of the allocation of power, "which is still male-biased and characterized by intransparency". "Changes would be important above all for prevention, all the more so because the church in Germany in particular has done a great deal for prevention since 2010 and has made a good deal of progress."

Subject of Oscar-winning film "Spotlight

Mertes, who founded the Jesuit college St. Blasien in the southern Black Forest, made his comments on the occasion of the Academy Awards to the film "Spotlight," which deals with the exposure of the abuse scandal in the U.S. Archdiocese of Boston by journalists from the Boston Globe newspaper. In contrast to the American case, the investigation into the abuse at the Jesuit Canisius College in Berlin got rolling in 2010 because three ex-students approached him and he said, "I believe you, and I'm asking all the cohorts from back then if there are any more affected". For victims to break their silence, trust is crucial, Mertes stressed.

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