From Der Spiegel, a weekly political magazine similar to The Economist. Text translated from German to English.

by D-dog92

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  2. I wonder if they could be any more servile in their reporting. Maybe “According to pro hamas video footage, recorded by suspected terrorist sympathizers…”

  3. Allegedly.

    Isn’t there a video of him clearly punching her?!..

  4. If its anything like here, if theres an ongoing investigation, they’re going to use vague language.

  5. Just Germany doing German things.

    With Russia, migration and Gaza Germany has done what suits Germany, and the rest of Europe/ common decency be damned.

  6. Translated how? I’d give the benefit of the doubt without knowing if it was human translated or AI translated.

  7. It looks like he punched her twice going by the video of the incident.

  8. Punching a young girl in the face is an appropriate response to ‘verbal assault’ in Germany it seems

  9. I really don’t like being in the EU with these German bootlickers. They are the main ones blocking the EU from trade sanctions against Israel. Given their past I would let them get away with stepping out of the way instead of actively protecting a genocidal regime. They have become backwards in recent years. And Berlin is the epicentre or backwardsness.

    Shame on them all.

  10. So much for journalism and Der Spiegel used to have some of the highest standards in Europe.   

    Interesting choice of biased language ‘proportionally’ ‘unauthorised gathering’ ‘verbally attacking officers’ ‘unclear whether he deliberately struck her’

  11. That is no different to how an Irish media outlet would report on an incident like that happening here.

  12. For legal reasons, journalists can’t make definitive statements about ongoing investigations. Even where it seems clearcut, they have to be very careful not to prejudice the results of the investigation.

  13. If they’re still investigating how else can they phrase that?

  15. Is Miss O’Brien okay (someone here might know her)? The video is horrific. I had a knock to my nose a week and a bit ago and it shook me a bit, and it wasn’t as badly hit as hers was.

    I hope she’s okay. There was no need for it. When protesters are in close quarters, there’s nowhere they can go and there was nowhere she could go. Really cowardly stuff from the cop.

  16. A prime example of being critical and skeptical of any articles and journalism you read. (From any country or outlet) There’s always a narrative being pushed.

  17. These sound like AI generated synopsis rather than actual journalism. Still shit but this braid non committal kind of reporting is everywhere.

  18. There’s a closeup video of her provoking the police calling them fascists and Nazis, even daring them to hit her. Now, what the officer did was still wrong, but I can imagine he wasn’t too pleased about a foreign agitator coming into his country and throwing around the “Nazi” label which, under German law, is a very serious and illegal accusation.

  19. Germany is an embarrassment to the EU. I understand they have shame and remorse for Nazism but the fact they can’t see they are repeating it again is disgusting. 

    I always had great admiration for Germany growing up and even considered moving there due to how progressive it is at one point in my life. Thank fuck I didn’t now. 

  20. Resorting to police brutality and straining relations with a fellow EU country so that they can continue to support a genocide. Good job Germany!

  22. On the Germany sub people were defending the cop saying that she insulted the police.

    Edit to add:I do disagree with them.

  23. You’d think they’d have learned from the first genocide that they committed. They’re quick enough to call us a tax haven but at least we’re not supplying the bullets used to snipe children in the bollox or beating up women that speak out against it.

  24. “Appear to bleed” 🙄🙄 covering up a genocide has made all the fucking rags so blatant about twisting the truth. After the rich can we eat the media for dessert?

  25. Different scenery around here when it’s not somebody from a rough area harassing police and inciting violence. What a world we live in. The basics of this story are no different to the people in coolock who behaved in a similar way. Except this time there’s outrage…

  26. He must have thought she was a time travel machine and tried to punch in 1939.

  27. I think it’s the hight of disrespect to go to another country and protest.

    Like Ireland has no or should it have any say in how it’s citizens are treated abroad. They could have killed her and it’s none of our business.

  29. There is a video doing the rounds on twitter of her repeatedly asking to be punched in the minute or so before hand.

    I’m not defending the police brutality but this context was missing from the original video.

  30. Nazi’s gonna Nazi…the approach they have taken against pro Palestine protest are akin to the early days of the nazi regime

  32. Wonder if Der Spiegel have ever heard of this Goebbels fella?

  33. He shouldn’t have punched her but also common sense would be to not scream at an officer in an already tense situation ?

  34. Gestapo / Stasi is alive and well in Berlin, nazi & communist gobshites

  36. Which of the three punches thrown was unintentional?

  37. Im confused here. The video clearly shows her putting hands on the police each time before she was hit. The response is not justified, i completely accept that. But she has assaulted an officer. If it was in America, it would be the same / probably worse.

  38. This is the problem with hate speech laws. They are always going to police the speech that they don’t like. 

  39. GTFOH he punched them square in the nose. Three times. On video.

  42. Germany likes to pick and choose their liberal issues, it seems, and being Pro-Palestine is evidently *verboten.*

    Doesn’t take much to show us that, despite being uber liberal in so many domains, old fashioned jackboot German fascism is always there under the surface – so long as you are thinking the wrong thing.

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