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Germany: Police Helicopters hunt Sprayers. One dead.

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Saturday April 09, 2005 12:52author by n.g. Report this post to the editors

- repression -

Berlin - no joke: German minister for inner affairs Otto Schily (SPD) ordered his new created military style police "Polizei des Bundes" to hunt graffiti sprayers with helicopters and ground units in Berlin, the german "streetart-capitol", at night.
One innocent man came to death.

The helicopters film sprayers with special night-view-cameras and give the information about the location of the sprayers to police units on ground - which have to capture the sprayers.
The helicopters have to fly very deep and very close above heavily populated city areas. Most residents are more pissed of about the helicopters than about the sprayers.

Yesterday one innocent motor biker came to death when a police car, hunting a sprayer, crashed into him.

This new police strategy is another, until now unknown, escalation of repression.




links to german news media:



http://www.handelsblatt.com/pshb/fn/relhbi/sfn/buildhbi/cn/GoArt!200013,200050,882687/SH/0/depot/0/

http://www.meinberlin.de/sixcms/detail.php?template=detail_polizeiticker&url=archiv/24530/index.html

http://www.meinberlin.de/sixcms/detail.php?template=detail_polizeiticker&url=archiv/24514/index.html

author by German Residentpublication date Sun Apr 10, 2005 09:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I am more pissed off with the graffiti vandals. I hope they are all captured and sent to prison, and made pay for the damage.

author by -dunnopublication date Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

@ link.
put "graffiti berlin" through google and you'll see the range of pick-up & contemporary cultural interest in graffiti art and stencils and murals in Berlin. N.B. that Berlin like all cities changes, an urban culture is rarely static, and the overt or other political or cultural message of the walls, same as the dominant youth culture changes perhaps constantly. And if they change then the minority or other groups who seek to lay claim to public space by exerting territory by use of slogan or symbol change as well.
= there's a wee bit more to this than fans of "spray on the wall" v. fans of "all graffiti is dirty vandalism"
might at first think. You see *the writing* is on the wall, but so too are many other messages, that ought by now have "sunk", but they didn't, they decided to come back. So the authorities make changes to the laws, and clean up the environment in an attempt to pretend the "other messages" have not come back from the depths and in so doing, marginalise them further helping to offer the proponents of such ideas the status of "underground".
sometimes rather than cleaning up walls, is it better to paint over them?
or just take down the walls.

Related Link: http://www.welt.de/data/2005/04/09/670743.html
author by Barrypublication date Sun Apr 10, 2005 15:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Good idea German resident. Maybe they could even build a special camp to keep them in, and make them work untill theyve paid for their heinous crimes.

Arbeit macht frei.

author by Big Brother's Little Brotherpublication date Sun Apr 10, 2005 23:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

In last week's Observer it is reported that all pets in the city of Dresden are being DNA printed. Owners will be fined after shit in the streets is examined. This apparently a popular move. Short memory....

author by Barrypublication date Sun Apr 10, 2005 23:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

and i said nothing.

author by Alpublication date Mon Apr 11, 2005 01:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

This cant be for real. They cant be sending out helicopters and police officers armed to the teeth for graffiti?!?! The cost alone is ridiculous.

author by Redbhoypublication date Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Broken windows theory!!

author by Rin Tin Tinpublication date Mon Apr 11, 2005 13:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ah c'mon. Thje cost analysing the DNA of every pet poop....

You must be taking the poop.

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