The policei seems to be in view of the announced blockades of Kassel's arms industry and demonstrations 28. In August, the nationwide “Rheinmetall disarm” alliance began to arbitrarily harass people. So she checked on 27. In the afternoon of August, five passers-by in Schillerkiez on their way to the organic food store “Schmackes”.
“We were on the way to Schmackes, to have a coffee there and were then suddenly arrested by the police in the parking lot and we had to hand over our personal details.", said one of the people checked.
The police cited suspicion as the reason for the personal identification, that the people being controlled would want to take part in tomorrow's actions. Although all five people were ready for it, to indicate their personal details, Two people were taken to the station, because they didn't have any identification documents with them. From a purely legal perspective, however, a verbal statement of personal details would have been sufficient.
When two passers-by stopped, to observe what is happening, they were requested, to move away from the event. When they didn't comply immediately, their personal details were also checked. “Upon request, why we were checked, it was just said, that we would ‘apparently be part of the action’.”, said one of the passers-by to the press office, “I didn’t realize it at the time, what action that should actually be, especially since we just wanted to stop by the health food store on the way home and were irritated by the police presence and therefore stopped.”
The arbitrary actions of the Kassel police on the verge of what is legally possible makes the alliance's accusation of political repression seem obvious.