Germany: Falun Dafa Practitioners Revisit Wolfsburg City

By a German Practitioner

On October 5 2002 Falun Dafa Practitioners in Germany held an SOS march calling people to “Join Together to Stop the Jiang Regime’s Persecution Against Falun Gong”, and also held a Falun Gong Information Day in Wolfsburg City.

In early June, Jiang Zemin visited Wolfsburg and signed an economic contract with the Volkswagen Automobile Company. Everywhere he went, he disturbed the lives of the citizens. He pressed the local government and police force to avoid seeing Falun Gong practitioners.

When we met with the officer of the police department to apply for the permit for the activities, he first apologized to us because when Jiang visited the city in June, the police department was under high pressure as Jiang Zemin was so afraid to see any Falun Gong practitioners. The officer admitted that their attitude and action at that time was not reasonable. He said it was due to the fact that they received orders and they were obliged to follow them. He also said, even so, he didn’t hear any bad comments about Falun Gong practitioners during the event. So he had very good impression about Falun Gong. He believed that we truly followed the principle of “Truth Compassion Tolerance”. In the end, he wished our activities success.

We also contacted the major media agencies in the city and notified them of the activity schedule. Two local newspapers immediately agreed to put on a notice of the activities and wanted to give a detailed report after the activities. One editor sincerely told us that he couldn’t understand why German Government Departments adopted such an attitude towards Falun Gong and implemented such ridiculous protective measures. Preventing the victims from appealing but protecting the murderer, was a scary situation. The notice on his newspaper mentioned Falun Gong practitioners were good-willed and charming.

Quite a few reporters from local newspapers came to our activity. They interviewed the practitioners, took photos and shot videos for a few hours. One reporter saw that many passers-by asked us for flyers, wanted to learn the exercises, signed their names on the petition forms and talked to practitioners for a long time. She suggested that we set up a Falun Gong practice site to let more people know Falun Gong. We happily agreed. At the rally, practitioners told the audiences how the practitioners in China are being cruelly persecuted and how the “610 Office” controls the persecution. A German practitioner talked about her experiences of going to Tiananmen Square and how the German policemen mistreated her during Jiang’s visit. One practitioner read a letter to the leaders of Volkswagen Automobile Company asking for help to rescue imprisoned practitioner Xiong Wei, an alumni of Berlin Technical University. After that, a small group of practitioners walked to Volkswagen to hand in the letter. When they began to walk back, it started to rain. The practitioners did the Fa Zheng Nian meditation silently and calmly in the rain. The whole event was completed in a serene atmosphere. This left a good impression to the policemen on duty. One policeman told us, “We understand you. We support you. There will be no problem if you want to held events again.” He also left a phone number to the practitioners.

Translated from Chinese Clear Harmony at http://yuanming.net/articles/200210/12965.html