Hamburg under siege again - and scandalous deportation

Today is now the 3rd day at which the parts of Hamburg I live in are under siege. It began on monday when about 100 people demonstrated in the "Schanzenviertel". Dunno what exactly this was about. But it looked like the police demonstrating against overtime work... Nearly 800 policemen. No chance to have a look at the demonstration. Well, this is the base right to demonstrate against anything in Germany - as long as you don't live in the Schanzenviertel...

On tuesday the director of the University of Hamburg called the police because students were trying to be on strike in front of the main building of the university. And the police was acting incredibly brutal, the students were outnumbered by far and a colleague of mine was caught by three police men with the arms torn on his back while he was phoning a lawyer...

Wednesday started with another student's demonstration against what happened the day before, and thank god the brutality started much later today, when most of the people were already on the way back. Short before but not seen by anybody because widely covered by the police was a gathering of the refugee council of Hamburg. Because on this day the first Afghan refugees should be transportated back to Afghanistan. Well, good for them if they are from the area around Kabul. But what should they do if they are originally from Kandahar or wherever?. "Afghanistan is save" says Hamburg's minister for interior affairs. Some people don't even trust their own words, I guess...