Controversial tazcolumn: editor-in-chief regrets in addition, the previous Text

The “taz”-editor-in-chief Barbara Young has expressed due to the criticism concerning column about the police Regret. In the newspaper dated Saturday, she writes: “A column as satirical as it may be meant that can be understood, as the police officers were nothing more than waste, is gone wrong. The I’m sorry.“ On Monday, the Text of the author Hengameh yaghoobi Farah was published in the daily newspaper “taz”. Part of the column, and a Contemplation about where police officers could work was if the police would be abolished, capitalism but. Here is also the Option to landfill fell.

From Polizistenund of politicians came after a lot of criticism. Police unions announced, with criminal action. The German press Council – the self-regulation of the press were already up Tuesday to around 50 complaints. Saxony-Anhalt’s interior Minister Holger Stahlknecht (CDU), told the German press Agency: “to write Such things about a whole group of people is hateful.” He considered such comments to be “very dangerous”. If you are from the left of the spectrum under the guise of Satire and irony in such statements, active, hide you actually. To the Minister of the interior, conference, other Department heads were outraged. The CSU published a Tweet with a sharp criticism with a photo of the author. The German Association of journalists, spoke of baiting. The Tweet is now no longer to be seen, the CSU asked on Twitter for your Form of criticism to excuse me.

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