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Germany: Police raid Antirassismus Buro (1)

01 January 1998

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The office of the Bremen anti-racist initiative was raided on 3 December 1997 following the organisation of a campaign against police violence. Slogans such as "police terror" and "racist crime discourse" already constitute the criminal offence of offending the police and libel. The organisation has been targeted by the police for some time, yet all court proceedings against members of the group have ended in acquittal. The group's campaigns - such as those against the use of emetics, the forcible X-raying of refugee children or the ban on transporting black people by the Bremen public transport company - have been taken up by lawyers, Amnesty International, and the national media (see Statewatch, vol 5 no 5, vol 6 no 1).

Rote Hilfe, no 1, 1998.

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