(DPA) German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser called for police to act vigorously if crimes are committed during political demonstrations.
Faeser was speaking after a rally by more than 1,000 Islamists in Hamburg on Saturday, which passed off peacefully, but where allegations of anti-Islamic policies and an anti-Islam media campaign in Germany were heard.
Some carried posters that read “Caliphate is the solution” or “Germany — a dictatorship of values.”
“Seeing an Islamist demonstration of this kind on our streets is difficult to bear. It’s a good thing that the Hamburg police counteracted crime with a large presence,” she said in remarks to the Tagesspiegel newspaper to be published on Monday.
