Berlin police ban Irish protesters from speaking or singing in Irish at pro-Palestine ‘ciorcal comhrá’ near Reichstag
by fedupofbrick
Berlin police ban Irish protesters from speaking or singing in Irish at pro-Palestine ‘ciorcal comhrá’ near Reichstag
by fedupofbrick
17 comments
No craic.
That’s an incredibly misleading article. They were attending the protest and intentionally breaking the rules by pretend to be there for something else.
Germany are going down a very dangerous road lately, you’d think they’d know better than others the dangers of fascism.
>therefore we were required to have an interpreter to clarify that for the police officers there. “And because we didn’t have one, we were banned from speaking in Irish.”.
The article says you have to speak English or German. Does that mean that the group here refused to speak English to translate to the German police what they were saying in Irish?
If only one of the protesters had the guts to try it.
Could make for an interesting European court case.
Surely this would be grounds for discrimination? Would Yiddish also be banned for the same reasons? Doubtful.
Is that not illegal as Irish is a recognised European language?
Im assuming here its irrelavent if they speak in Irish or German or English, its down to clamping down on pro palestine protests.
Im wrong here. Its not exactly a ban but a restriction unless theres a translator present. Applies to all languages except English and German.
> therefore we were required to have an interpreter to clarify that for the police officers there.
This doesn’t make sense. Why didn’t one of them just act as the designated interpreter?
Some insane takes in this thread, the Mossadbots are out in full force
Makes perfect sense, Germany has very rigid laws around certain speach, and if the police cannot verify that those laws are not being broken.
Cops don’t have the power to do this. What they can d o is threaten to arrest you for speaking a language they don’t understand which would be f a lse arrest and harassment.
Amazing how the Germans have learned absolutely nothing from their history.
Someone post this to r/europe, curious what those cunts have to say
Has not the slightest bit to do with the Irish language or the treatment of Irish people.
Germany has very strict hate speech laws and the police therefore have to monitor protests for speech targeting certain groups or individuals. The Berlin police don’t have endless resources to employ translators for every language, so they put out a police order restricting the use of languages other than German and English in the protest camp currently in front of the parliament, with Arabic allowed in the evenings.
The fact that they don’t have an Arabic interpreter for the whole day is worth protesting, but instead the Irish bloc have just purposefully subverted the police order and then are complaining that the police then did their job by shutting them down. They could’ve been speaking Klingon or Esperanto and it would’ve been exactly the same story.
This is where hate speech laws get you lads.