Dietrich Wagner
Dietrich Wagner ( born 1945 ) is a German engineer from Stuttgart. He suffered 30 September 2010 serious eye injury from a water cannon in the violent eviction of the Stuttgart palace garden for the controversial Stuttgart 21 rail project and the associated protests in Stuttgart.
Evacuation and injury in Wagner
Wagner was by its own account is not against the first large-scale project, but was confident in discussions with project opponents believe that it is nonsensical. He was previously with the exception of his student days in Tübingen hardly politically active.
During the evacuation of the palace gardens to tree felling, Wagner was hit by a beam with a water cannon of police in the face. The Stern magazine described Wagner's presentation, this was " trying to help young people who were swept away by the jet of water cannon. That's why he had pulled up his arms and waved the police to mean to them, they should stop. Then even the water jet hit him in the face. " Stuttgart police threw the blame Wagner before because he" " did not weggeduckt. According to Wagner the water cannon was about 13 meters away from him. Chief of Police Siegfried Stumpf argues: "We have taken the man behind the barricades again aside, but he ran back to again and again. He himself has taken up directly into the beam. "
A September 30, picked up by the police and emitted from Sat.1 on October 6, 2010 Video showing how he does not throw an accurate object to be recognized. And the target can not be recognized. Wagner admitted then one to have thrown " two or three chestnuts ", and spoke of a " symbolic act ": " There are hundreds were thrown out of chestnut, but without any effect, because the police were equipped with thick uniforms, helmets and visors. " Wagner stressed that it was done in clear in advance of the breach by the water cannon. He had the police so do not provoke.
The chief doctor Egon Georg Weidle presented in the Catherine Hospital in Stuttgart Wagner both sides severe contusion injuries, torn eyelids, orbital floor fracture, a torn retina and lens securely destroyed. The left eye is completely destroyed and will accept only the left margin perceive a ray of light. The sight in the other eye is 8% and is no longer sufficient for reading or driving.
In St. Catherine's Hospital and the Charlotte Department of Ophthalmology 16 more eye injuries had to be treated, including 4 stationary.
Political and legal consequences
Photos that show Wagner, as he is bleeding supported by two Mitdemonstranten were published in almost all German media. The following demonstrations some protesters reminded with red paint on the face of Wagner. Wagner has been declared a symbol of the demonstrations and police violence in Stuttgart. The Rheinische Post described Wagner as " symbolic figure of Stuttgart 21 ", and the West German radio as a " symbol of police violence." The Süddeutsche Zeitung sees him as the "face of resistance". After Jakob Augstein " should [ the image ] large proportion have had in mind that the Baden-Württemberg Minister President undersecretary lost his position. "
The former interior minister of Baden -Wuerttemberg, Heribert Rech ( CDU), Wagner visited after the incident at the hospital. An apology Wagner but not received. The Member of Parliament Karin Maag (CDU ), did address the image of the injured on 6 October 2010, in a speech in the German Bundestag, and described the figure here as manipulative, police work-up of the events must be awaited.
The Stuttgart prosecutor examined whether there is a reasonable suspicion against Wagner for assault on the police. Wagner criticized this. The case against him was later discontinued.
Wagner filed a criminal complaint for assault against Interior Minister Rech On 28 October 2010 ranged Dietrich Wagner and three others injured before the Administrative Court of Stuttgart a lawsuit against the state of Baden - Württemberg, in order to examine the proportionality of the insert. They are represented by the Stuttgart lawyer Frank -Ulrich, who was formerly head of the legal department of Greenpeace. Wagner continues his commitment to the resistance against Stuttgart 21
About a year after the incident, he stated to journalists that he sees in the " 30 September 2010, the third- worst crime of all-German state " committed after the Second World War.
Dietrich Wagner himself has been involved in the incident to the use of water cannons by the police. In 2014 he visited the United Kingdom and called on Theresa May ( Home Secretary ), not to authorize the use of water cannons.
Honors
- In 2011 he was awarded the Georg- Elser - Price