Police Silently to the Background of the CSD Announcement in Gelsenkirchen

In Gelsenkirchen and Mönchengladbach this year's CSDs were severely restricted or completely cancelled. Reason: Threats by fascists: inside the Internet. A sad tradition continues. As usual in May and June, several cities in Germany's CSD events took place on May 17. The events date back to the protests in New York's Christopher Street in 1969, in which people with a heterosexual norm of deviating sexuality or various genders resisted the ongoin…

The CSD in Gelsenkirchen was cancelled at short notice because of an "abstract threat situation", which leaves plenty of room for interpretation.

Shortly before the start, the CSD in Gelsenkirchen is canceled. The police speak of a threat situation. But who is actually threatening who? The police don't want to say it.