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The Minister of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg, Strobl, has proposed to send all people with corona infection or suspected of having it to a special hospital if they do not stay at home. A former lung clinic in St. Blasien in the Black Forest is supposed to be used as a closed institution for this purpose.

He refers to paragraph 30 of the Infection Protection Act, according to which infected people and people suspected of being infected may be "forcibly segregated". In other words, they can be imprisoned.

The governments of the German states have agreed to legalize online gambling from July 2021 on. Corresponding offences will remain unpunished until then.

The US-concern Amazon is a winner in this crisis. Not being effected by the closed retailstores, more and more shipments are sent through the whole world.

"Today we are experiencing a historic day for our country, experiencing how a dream of 60 years ago comes true". These were Erdogan's words after the presentation of the two prototype models of the new electric cars in December last year, which are scheduled to roll off the production line in Turkey from 2022. Then "Turkey will finally have its own car brand". The plans have become more concrete, and new details were published in August. The first export market is to be Germany among others. But: Is the e-car production in Turkey really a sign of the strength of the independent national economy?

In Bremen, a Graffiti was painted in honor of Comrade Joselo, one of the founders and great fighter of the Communist Party of Ecuador-Red Sun. We hereby publish the pictures that were sent to us.

Last week, there were protests by students in several schools in France, denouncing the lack of hygiene concepts and their implementation possibilities.

Norway:

Comrades at Tjen Folket Media (Serve the People Media) reports that actions have been made in solidarity with the workers on the shipping company Hurtigruten, which mainly uses workers from the Philippines, who work for 8 months at a time away from home and only receive 35 Norwegian Crowns an hour (much less than the regular wage in Norway). Revolutionaries held a manifestation in front of the Hurtigruten headquarters in Oslo, with a banner and held a speech. In Bergen a banner was put up in front of the docks.

Also actions was made in Trondheim and Oslo, in solidarity with the fallen comrades of the TKP/ML.

Finland:

Comrades at Punalippu (Red Flag) writes on  how the “Finnish security police” (SUPO), which is to say the political police, is pushing for a change in law to making the act of them secretly recruiting agents, legal.

Denmark:

Comrades at Socialistisk Revolution (Socialist Revolution) writes  about several killings and shootings of the police in the last few weeks. What is common in all the stories is that almost no information has gotten out and that the bourgeois press has been mostly silent.

After two attacks in France in recent weeks, which were declared as "Islamist terrorism" by the bourgeois French state, France is now beginning to expand its measures against this "terrorism".