Nrw and berlin: right-wing extremism suspected in two authorities

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After the uncovering of a right-wing extremist chat group at the police in North Rhine-Westphalia are New suspected cases of right-wing extremism at the police in Berlin and at the Verfangsschutz in North Rhine-Westphalia became known.

According to research by the ARD magazine "Monitor" is now also in the ranks of the Berlin police a chat with racist content surfaced. In it, Muslims were described as a "fanatical primate culture," refugees were equated with rapists or rats, and neo-Nazis were mentioned as possible "allies" at left-wing demonstrations, according to the report, which is to be broadcast on Thursday evening.

Racist chat group: more than 25 Berlin police officers allegedly exchanged information

It is said to be the internal chat of a Service group of the Berlin police force, in which more than 25 officers are said to have exchanged. Seven officers in particular had regularly made clearly racist comments in it, often in the form of alleged jokes, the report says.

colleagues had often commented on the statements with approval. A supervisor of the group was said to be over racist remarks had been informed in the chat. In an email, he had asked the officials not to share content relevant to criminal law.

According to the magazine, Berlin's Interior Senator Andreas Geisel (SPD) said: "If the accusations are true, this is absolutely unacceptable and has nothing to do with a modern, cosmopolitan capital city police force."

Berlin police begin investigation

The Berlin police initiated criminal proceedings after the right-wing extremist chat group came to light. "With knowledge of the facts, we immediately initiated criminal proceedings and took up the investigation."

The Berlin police announced that they will "use all legal means up to the Entlang" against officials who "reject the values and ideals of the Verfang, act contrary to them or oppose them". Racists and racists had "no place in our ranks and in the police in general".

NRW: Suspected cases of right-wing extremism at the interception service

North Rhine-Westphalia's Verfangsschutz now also has suspected cases of right-wing extremism. Three members of the observation team were suspected of this, as the state interior ministry told the Dusseldorf-based "Rheinische Post" newspaper. In addition, a fourth person was suspected of right-wing extremism, who had worked in the Interior Ministry as an "administrative officer in the police department".

The Verfangsschutz employees had come to attention because they had sent videos "with Islamophobic or xenophobic connotations" in online networks and chats, the ministry explained, according to the newspaper. The clue to the chat group within the observation team would have provided colleagues who had received these videos. According to the report, the employee or employees in the police department had noticed Facebook contacts with members of the right-wing extremist scene.

Suspected employees observed right-wing extremists

The three suspected employees in the Verfangsschutz were according to the information among other things for the observation of right-wing extremists responsible. The observation teams are basically deployed in all areas, including that of right-wing extremism, the Interior Ministry explained. The observation team has since been disbanded and "the management staff has been replaced".

The Interior Ministry initiated disciplinary and personnel measures immediately after the right-wing extremism allegations arose, a spokeswoman told the "Rheinische Post" newspaper. Of the four proceedings, one has already been concluded with the imposition of a disciplinary measure, he said. The other three were currently still under investigation.

Insurance companies are happy to collect premiums but reluctant to pay in the event of a claim – a stereotype that numerous restaurants and businesses saw confirmed after the spring shutdown. Many companies, which are opposed to Business closures The companies that felt they were covered did not receive any money in the end. The Insurers found backdoors to refuse payment. This has triggered a wave of lawsuits, of which the first results can now be seen.

On Thursday, the Munich Regional Court announced a first interim status: Even if the pathogen Sars-CoV-2 is not explicitly mentioned in the contract, the insurers must pay in principle. On behalf of many other eateries, the Paulaner-Wirtshaus am Nockherberg in Munich, among others, had filed a lawsuit against the insurance market leader Allianz; according to legal experts, the innkeepers now have a good chance of winning in court. Final ruling still pending here.

Court: daycare center with emergency operations not entitled to insurance benefits

The judge spoke on Thursday at the same time a clear judgement in a parallel running procedure. A daycare center had also sued for insurance benefits. She did, however, offer emergency care during the shutdown. "The relevant policy terms, however, required a complete business closure for the insured event to occur," the court said. It has therefore dismissed the lawsuit.

However, the judge also emphasized that it still depends on the respective contract. The wording is different in each case, because neither customers nor providers have yet looked in detail at the pas to epidemics. "Until this spring, health risks ranked far down the list of specific fears," says George Abegg, Expert for insurance law at the law firm Rodl Partner. It wasn't until just before the lockdown that insurance customers looked at their policies: Am I insured against a business closure caused by an epidemic?

Corona crisis: widespread loss of revenue hardly seemed real for a long time

Insurers themselves have also included illnesses in the list of covered perils for years without charging a significant premium for them. Apparently they did not really expect significant payments.

Despite warnings of experts the danger of a surface covering loss of sales by an illness in Germany appeared evenly for a long time only little real. While insurers worked through the details of the consequences of climate change in the drought years, the pandemic scenarios there were still in the making.

A wave of lawsuits is rolling in on insurers

It will now be all the more expensive for the insurance industry. It had only factored in individual claims for illnesses, such as an occasional restaurant closure due to salmonella. Instead, she now sees a wave of claims rolling towards her. There are alone between 25.000 and 40.000 restaurants, cafes and hotels that have business lockdown insurance, estimates the Dehoga restaurant association.

If epidemics are covered, insurers must pay owners per diem for shutdown period. At least that was the hope of the innkeepers – all the greater was then the anger when the providers refused to compensate them. The court in Munich alone has already received 72 lawsuits for non-payment of shutdown insurance policies.

Insurers argue with cases of illness in the businesses

The dispute now also concerns which epidemics are covered under which circumstances. During the shutdown, the insurers argue that there were often no cases of illness in the business at all.

Some insurance policies also refer to Section 7 of the Protection Against Infection Act, which contains a long list of reportable diseases that qualify as causes of insured events. From anthrax to Ebola, plague and leprosy to the Zika virus, the horrors of mankind are listed here, but also everyday pathogens such as measles or the norovirus. However, the federal parliament did not add Sars-CoV-2 to the list until February.

This is now the source of contention in many cases. If an insurance policy refers to the law for covered illnesses – does the catch at the time the policy was written, the catch at the time of the business closure, or a later updated catch apply? When the contract was signed, Covid did not even exist yet. Some insurers are now insisting they don't have to pay for an illness not mentioned at the time.

However, the Regional Court of Mannheim has already ruled in April, such area-wide plant closures should be covered by insurance. This catching protects the rights of the insured and should generally prevail, demands expert Abegg.

Abegg advises taking a close look at existing business interruption insurance documents. If the type of business interruption covered is kept comparatively open, it tends to be a good insurance policy. "The reference to the Infection Protection Act also makes sense," says Abegg.

It would be best to make it clear that the law is meant in its current form. Less good policies contain explicit lists of insured risks. "If then the case that actually occurs is not in it, the insured has bad cards," says Abegg.

Business interruption insurance is part of property insurance, which is actually supposed to cover property damage. So these insurances are actually meant to step in when production facilities break down, for example due to flooding. This is another reason why many insurers find it difficult to regulate. Epidemics were originally an afterthought of the fire insurance industry. Here again they thought more cases like that of an ice cream parlor that has to close because of diarrhea.

After all, the Turkey travelers more time than those in Israel and the U.S. When news broke Friday afternoon that the federal government was upgrading all three countries to high-risk pandemic areas, the former vaccination frontrunners the U.S. and Israel were already on Sunday night.

Only for Turkey, the new status will not take effect until Tuesday night. The background is the current infection situation in the country. The seven-day incidence was recently just above 200, and the number of new daily Corona infections had risen sharply in recent weeks. There is great concern that Returners could further fuel the infection in this country as well.

Turkey journeys in the summer: Many visit relatives

The new classification is likely to disrupt the travel plans of thousands of people. Turkey, with its turquoise sea and numerous historical and cultural attractions, is not only a Popular vacation destination.

Many people of Turkish origin living in Germany also use the summer to visit relatives and friends in the country. Alone 170.000 people, estimates the German travel federation, are at present in the context of package tours in Turkey, in addition come many even organized stays. All these trips could now be abruptly cut short.

Children under 12 cannot avoid quarantine

Because those who come from a high-risk area and can prove neither a complete Corona vaccination nor a survived Corona disease, must on their return in Quarantine. For ten days, returnees should isolate themselves, according to the Foreign Office, a shortening of the quarantine by a negative test result is possible after five days at the earliest. For children under 12, quarantine ends automatically after five days.

But for this group in particular, there is still no approved vaccine – and thus no possibility of avoiding the quarantine altogether, criticizes the German Travel Association (DRV). Especially families with younger children are therefore affected by the current regulation "explicitly to the disadvantage", said association president Norbert Fiebig. In the summer vacations many families in Turkey would be on vacation.

"We have already pointed out that this decision by the German government is contrary to European resolutions. It would be desirable to bring about a change here as quickly as possible." The EU Council had recommended a few weeks ago, Minors, who travel with their vaccinated parents or companions, from quarantine.

Vacation in high-risk area could jeopardize participation in school lessons

The situation could become particularly problematic for families with schoolchildren who had planned to return shortly before the end of the summer vacations. Pupils and pupils in North Rhine-Westphalia, for which classes start again on Wednesday, still have time to get home in time. But in ten other German states, the vacations are still running.

"Particularly in cases where the return from Turkey occurs just before the start of school, participation in the Presence lessons endangered in the first days of school," Heinz-Peter Meidinger, President of the German Teachers' Association, told our editorial team. The association appeals to those affected to adhere to the quarantine rules: Since the classification as a high-risk area was made so late, they are not responsible for the possible delayed start of school, he said.

Turkey: criticism of late classification as Corona high-risk area

The opposition criticized the federal government's classification as hasty and lacking foresight. "Too late, erratic and too short notice" would react the responsible ministers Jens Spahn and Horst Seehofer, said FDP faction vice MichaelTheurer our editorial office. "The short-term classification of Turkey as a high-risk area will cause thousands of holidaymakers to miss their vacations because of the threat of quarantine for the unvaccinated or the cancellation fee the spoil vacation."

Green Party health expert Janosch Dahmen also accuses the government of lacking foresight. How strongly the Travel mobility to the renewed increase and the fourth wave now beginning, shows itself in particular to the end of the vacations, where for example in North Rhine-Westphalia or Berlin the seven-day incidence already lies again over 50 and continues to rise.

"I think it's wrong that we're going to be at the diffuse international pandemic events Regarding testing at all still make differences," Dahmen told our editorial staff. "It would make sense, quite fundamentally, to always test before departure and on the fifth day."

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