German MP Ulla Jelpke condemned the house raid the police held in Munich for YPG flags and said: “The government announced that only carrying YPG flags in demonstrations was banned, with this raid the police has ignored the government.”
On Thursday in the early morning hours the police forces in Munich, Germany conducted a house raid on two leftist activists Narges Nassimi and Kerem Schamberger, citing YPG flags as an excuse.
Special operations units participated in the raid which Die Linke MP Ulla Jelpke condemned harshly. Jelpke called on the Federal government and state forces and said: “Stop criminalizing people using the YPG flag as an excuse.” Jelpke pointed out the YPG’s struggle against ISIS.
“WHOSE SIDE IS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ISIS?”
The German MP said YPG is striving to free Raqqa of ISIS with US-provided weapons and added: “During such an important and historic process, the Bavaria State police forces are raiding activists’ homes because they posted the YPG flag on Facebook.”
Jelpke pointed out the ban notice issued by the Federal Interior Ministry in March and called on the German government to withdraw the notice immediately. In her written statement on the issue, Jelpke continued with:
“At a time when Erdoğan continues to support terrorists, I seriously ask the federal government: Whose side are you on in the fight against ISIS? The raid in Munich was under the excuse of the PKK ban. But the federal government had responded to a previous written inquiry of mine and said the YPG flag is not banned in Germany.
The government stated that the YPG flag was not banned if it wasn’t carried with the intention of getting through the PKK ban. The Bavaria police raid has shown a disregard for the rule of law once again.”
INHUMANE AND ILLEGAL TREATMENT DURING THE POLICE RAID
In the raid yesterday, the police had confiscated laptops, harddisks, flash disks and mobile phones found in the apartment. Narges Nassimi posted a statement on Facebook saying the police knocked hard on their door very early in the morning and continued:
“The police shouted at us and said they will break down the door if we didn’t open. We had to open the door before we even got dressed properly. The police didn’t have a warrant and we opposed that. Then I said I was going to go to the bathroom, and they said a police officer would accompany me there. We were subjected to inhumane and illegal practices.”
Schamberger had said he posted the YPG flag on Facebook, like thousands of other people in Germany, and that it’s not a crime but an honorable act. Schamberger had then posted photos of YPJ fighters and the YPJ flag under a photo of the investigation report and condemned the German police.
