While I was driving along the autobahn, I saw tanks from the army
together with vehicles from the police on the bridges.
I stood behind a tank and wanted to film it,
when I saw an sergeant first class who was standing by the tank.
He was a so called tank scout.
The sergeant first class was waving nervously.
It seems that he wanted to stop us filming.
Then he looked to the police, turned around and hid from me all the time.
The police came directly to me and controlled my personal data.
The armored observing vehicle had a 360° camera
with infrared and night vision.
At least 6 of them were standing at the autobahn,
all of them in conjunction with the police.
Those who are not well versed think that they are police vehicles,
because the police is standing by them and the army has vehicles,
which are looking like broaching tanks.
The police officers came to me and said that they don't want me to film here.
I asked why and they replied that they wanted my identity card.
I gave them my identity card and asked again why they don't want me to film.
Thereupon they evaded and asked me, if I was from the press.
I said I was. Thereupon they walked away and checked my personal data.
One police officer kept on watching me.
I asked, if I could speak with the sergeant first class and shouted at him,
while he was peeping from behind the tank.
He instantly hid again and the police officer said they weren't
wanting me to do so and that he is assuming
that one isn't wanting a dialogue. The soldiers hid from me.
I saw that one police officer exited the police car.
But instead giving me my identity card back,
he first counseled the sergeant first class
and came then to me and gave me my identity card.
Thereupon I asked for a legal reason again.
I asked what it means when he is saying that he doesn't want me to film.
He told me that they could not legaly rohibit the filming
but it was not wanted.
Three things that are scandals happened here.
The first is, that the tank scouts cooperated so close with the police
and observed the autobahn.
In my opinion this is an illegal deployment of the army
against G8 protest. The politicians and jurists have to check that.
The second scandal is, that it was a training by the military and the police.
How do the different police and military offices work together.
This is a training by the military and the police.
That has to be made public.
The third scandal is that a soldier says to the police that he doesn't want filming,
and therefore the police checks the identity card
and thereafter they discuss together what they will do.
This is a brassiness, this is a scandal, this is illegal.
All of the three things I mentioned are illegal
and are forming a queue of militarization,
to which the interior ministry and the ministry of Defense are striving.
It is a must that soldiers give informations on where and how they are deployed.
So that it remains transparent and we have a chance to oppose to it.
At the same day the army drove on the site of a commune.
They turned back instantly as they were found.
We think that they spied out left structures.
We must put these things together in order to get an overall picture
and can oppose to it.