Berlin Senate and sexual assault: What is Kai Wegner doing about violence in parks?

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Wie sicher sind Frauen in deutschen Parkanlagen? Diese Frage beschäftigt viele Menschen, vor allem nachdem es in Berlin zu einem Fall von Gruppenvergewaltigung im Görlitzer Park (Stadtteil Kreuzberg) gekommen ist. Infolgedessen fordern Politikerinnen der Union wie die stellvertretende Fraktionschefin Andrea Lindholz (51, CSU) ein härteres Durchgreifen gegen die Täter sowie verstärkte Präventionsmaßnahmen. Es soll keine Räume geben, in denen sich Täter sicher fühlen können, denn Gewalt und sexuelle Übergriffe gegen Frauen sind absolut inakzeptabel und abscheulich. Die Berliner Politik hat sich bisher wenig zu den sexuellen Angriffen in den Parkanlagen geäußert. Die Zeitung BILD hat beim Regierenden Bürgermeister von Berlin, …
How safe are women in German parks? This question concerns many people, especially after a case of group rape in Berlin has occurred in Görlitzer Park (Kreuzberg district). As a result, politicians from the Union, like the deputy leader of the parliamentary group Andrea Lindholz (51, CSU), demand a harder access to the perpetrators and increased prevention measures. There should be no rooms in which perpetrators can feel safe, because violence and sexual attacks against women are absolutely unacceptable and hideous. So far, Berlin politics has said little about the sexual attacks in the parks. The newspaper BILD has the ruling mayor of Berlin, ... (Symbolbild/MB)

How safe are women in German parks? This question concerns many people, especially after a case of group rape in Berlin has occurred in Görlitzer Park (Kreuzberg district). As a result, politicians from the Union, like the deputy leader of the parliamentary group Andrea Lindholz (51, CSU), demand a harder access to the perpetrators and increased prevention measures. There should be no rooms in which perpetrators can feel safe, because violence and sexual attacks against women are absolutely unacceptable and hideous.

Berlin politics has so far expressed little about the sexual attacks in the parks. The newspaper BILD asked the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner (50, CDU), what the city government is doing against these crimes. Wegner, however, only briefly replied and informed that the Berlin police are strengthened with the double budget and that the parks and green areas are to be made safer.

The SPD Senator Iris Spranger (61) emphasizes that each crime is too much. The police have already increased their visible presence in dangerous places, such as in parks and crime -stressed areas, and will improve cooperation with the public prosecutor in order to prioritize the criminal proceedings against the perpetrators.

The question remains, however: Why does the mayor not comment on this topic himself? Wegner is usually not known for being reserved. For example, he had loudly positioned himself in the CDU internal dispute over the handling of the AfD loudly against his party leader Friedrich Merz (67) and called for more distance to the right-wing populists. In addition, together with the SPD President Bärbel Bas (55) he had opened the Christopher Street Day in Berlin and celebrated with gays, lesbians and other queer people for nine hours.

The newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" suspects a targeted PR turn at Wegner. His goal is to take off the image of the "right quay", which used to lead election campaigns with the motto "democratic, dynamic, German". As a reigning mayor, he now tries to make his party in the capital with a gentler appearance.

The security of women in German parks is still an important topic that also employs the Berlin Senate. However, the specific measures and initiatives do not emerge from the previous information. Hopefully the city government will increasingly rely on prevention in the future and will be determined against sexual abuse in order to be able to offer women a safe environment.