Criminal Association? : Office of the public Prosecutor is investigating the center for political beauty

Because of their spectacular action in born Hagen in the Eichsfeld, the place of residence of the Thuringian AfD Chefs Björn Höcke, the artists ' group "center for political beauty" (ZPS) to be targeted by the judiciary: The public Prosecutor's office Gera, determined against its founder, Philipp Ruch, due to the formation of a criminal Association. The investigations have been running for 16 months.

The ZPS had rented a plot of land near the dwelling house of Höcke, and there is a "Holocaust memorial" was recreated. Höcke was referred to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin in January 2017 in his Dresden fire speech as a "monument of shame" and a "stupid management policy". The on 22. November 2017 born in Hagen, launched the action of the ZPS was against this Background, against the rights of a scramble in the AfD.

The Erfurt Parliament President Christian Carius (CDU), had criticized the action of the artist at the time, sharp and of a "monstrous intervention". He compared the action even with the "decomposition methods of the state security".

Public on the 29. November 2017 investigations initiated by the response of the Thuringian state government to a parliamentary question of the Left-members of Parliament Steffen Dittes. He asks regularly for criminal and terrorist groups and received in March, the information that a "group of action artists" because of Section 129 of the criminal code - criminal Association - will be determined. There is an accused person, the procedure had not been completed.

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This Accused Philipp Ruch, the founder of the ZPS. The investigations against him were not initiated due to the construction of the stele field in born in Hagen, but because the artist had to announce the group in November of 2017, even, to want to Höcke specifically observe.

Organized eavesdropping and spying measures against Höcke?

The group had announced "in an organised way, eavesdropping and spying measures against the Deputy Höcke" and thus a criminal Offence, accused, declared the spokesman of the public Prosecutor's office Gera, Martin Zschächner. Therefore, only the suspicion that Höcke could have been intercepted, also may be made with telephoto lenses shooting from his genital area and data has been intercepted.

approach for the investigator is, among other things, Section 201 of the criminal code, violation of the confidentiality of the word. When the investigation will be completed, could not Zschächner say. The Green politician, Dieter Lauinger-led Ministry of justice in Thuringia, has not commented on the ongoing investigation.

Ramelow called the ZPS "really pathetic,"

Höcke himself had then seen to be threatened. He called the group of artists in November 2017, at a conference of the right of the "Compact"magazine in Leipzig in a "terrorist Association". He said: "Who would do such a thing, is in my eyes a Terrorist." Therefore, the ZPS was not a group of artists. "She is a criminal Association. Yes, it is a terrorist group."

Prime Minister of Thuringia Bodo Ramelow (Left) called the group of artists in December 2017, then, "really pathetic", you have to be playful with your actions in born Hagen every respect.

The Left-the Deputy Dittes protested on Wednesday nevertheless sharply against the investigation, to be criminalized with the ZPS wrong. The actions of the Prosecutor's office was "outrageous", a "socially and politically devastating Signal will be completed," said Dittes to the daily mirror. The "center for political beauty" as a group was "no risk to public safety". The investigating Agency alleged that Dittes a "blatant attack on the freedom of art".

The "center for political beauty" protested also against the investigation. "The state grabs one of the sharpest legal weapons - the criminals against the most Severe against the centre and the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of art", - was stated on the Homepage. "We are supposed to be lit, and stigmatized to be criminalized." And: "When radical art is criminalized, the state is a criminal." The ZPS called on his followers to donate to the supposedly urgent need to "legal defense".

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The action art group, under the leadership of Ruch exists since 2009. In addition to the construction of the Holocaust memorial in front of Höckes house provided with promotions such as "first European fall of the wall", for the stolen, 2014, the memorial crosses for the Berlin wall, the dead, and to the European external borders re-established, in order to make the deceased Refugees to the attention of.