Less than 10 years ago, Germany, and especially Berlin, was held up as a beacon of openness and inclusivity in a western world rocked by Brexit and Donald Trump. Angela Merkel’s decision to take in thousands of refugees displaced by the war in Syria boosted her country’s reputation in progressive circles, with many international artists and academics choosing to make the German capital their new home.

Yet the conflict in the Middle East is showing Germany in a new light, highlighting fissures in society and the arts world that until now had been easier to ignore.

  • geissi@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 months ago

    I admit, it might be a language problem.

    taking a person into custody (legal protection or control)

    What does taking into custody mean then?
    Is police taking someone aside for 2 minutes to ask some questions an arrest?
    Because then I don’t understand the outcry over it, particularly compared to far more heavy-handed police action that definitely does happen every now and again.