Do the energy crisis and high inflation have the potential to endanger the cohesion of our society? The security authorities are not currently expecting violence, but are preparing themselves anyway.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution does not expect large violent protests in connection with the high energy prices. “We currently have no signs of violent mass riots,” said the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang, of “Bild am Sonntag”. Nevertheless, the security authorities are prepared for all scenarios.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution looks closely to see whether legitimate protests are being hijacked by enemies of democracy. Haldenwang said: “I don’t expect protests that are more violent than at the height of the demonstrations against the state corona measures.”
The President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution had already said in mid-August that there were “no signs of widespread anti-state protests or even violent mass riots”. In July, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) warned of “popular uprisings” in the event of a lack of gas deliveries, but then retracted this statement.
The social researcher Piotr Kocyba recently told the German Press Agency that he was expecting a violent wave of protests in the autumn in view of the looming energy crisis and high inflation. He pointed out that the far-right Freie Sachsen and the Identitarian movement in social networks were heating up the mood. The left and the AfD also want to call citizens to demonstrations on the street.
Haldenwang warned against the spread of Russian propaganda. “Parts of the right-wing extremist scene adopt these slogans from Moscow. It’s remarkable how uncritically some right-wing extremists and right-wing populists make themselves (President Vladimir) Putin’s mouthpiece and sing his song.” One of the Russian narratives is that NATO forced war on Russia and that the sanctions are to blame for the energy crisis.
Source: Stern
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