Law enforcement officers in the German capital have been authorised to act against people with yellow star badges and other symbols linked to the Holocaust genocide in the 20th century. Such badges are occasionally used in protests against epidemiological restrictions and Covid-19 vaccination, British news portal The Guardian reports.
In line with an internal update by the Berlin police antisemitism commissioner, first reported by the newspaper BZ Berlin, «the use of adapted ‘Jewish stars’ at gatherings can now be assumed to be a fundamental disturbance of public peace».
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Police in the German capital have been instructed to document, remove and confiscate the yellow star badges, which some German vaccine sceptics have taken to wearing with the superimposed words «ungeimpft» («unvaccinated» in German) in order to draw a parallel between modern governments’ treatment of those who decline to take a jab against Covid-19 and the systematic stigmatisation of Jewish citizens in the Nazi era.
The police’s internal memo clarifies that wearing the blue and white Star of David, classified as a purely religious symbol, remains legal at demonstrations. In addition, police are also instructed to take action against other analogies that trivialise the Holocaust, which are to be classified as forms of «secondary antisemitism», The Guardian wrote.
Berlin police authorised to remove yellow star badges from vaccination protesters
