Chapter 1178: I Can't Breathe
While Alan comforted Penelope and fed her Sprite to calm down, the situation in the German wizarding world in the past few days has not improved in the slightest, and the initial protest has begun to turn into a riot.
In the early days after the bank robbery, people were more likely to gather in front of Gringotts to protest. The amount of compensation that the goblins of Gringotts were willing to pay was far from what the victims demanded.
Due to the lax management habits of the wizarding world, the elves themselves are not sure how many gold galleons their customers have in their vaults, and the value of some heirlooms such as works of art or magical curiosities is difficult to estimate, and in the face of the full amount of compensation demanded by the victims, the elves believe that many wizards are simply taking advantage of the fire to falsely report the figures, although they do.
The goblins simply closed down the Gringotts temporarily under the stalemate, and temporarily banned the wizards from entering the business on the grounds that they needed to be repaired, but the wizard community happened to spread rumors that Gringotts was going to collapse at this time, which made many wizards who were originally because the vault was deep enough to panic and want to take out their wealth.
The fact that Gringotts is a transnational organization of goblins is overlooked at such moments - since the elves' supposedly safest bank has proven to be no longer safe, then the seeds of distrust germinate in the wizards, who are naturally discriminatory and distrustful of non-wizarding creatures, instigated by rumors.
The goblins turned to the German Ministry of Magic's Elven Liaison Office for help, hoping that the Ministry of Magic could support and coordinate, and because the German Minister of Magic tried to prevent Hogwarts from entering the airspace, the officials, who had become a joke at home and abroad, did want to appease these protests and provide some positive information to the people, so Minister Hess took the lead, and he successfully persuaded the other families and elves to focus on this difficult time at this time, and provided the victims with a much larger pension and relief than similar incidents in the ordinary。
Aside from the fact that the wizarding families who were completely bankrupt and continued to have to make a fuss about their lives, the situation did improve a little in a short period of time.
But then, the attack on Newmengard Prison and the disappearance of the first Dark Lord Grindelwald, which the Ministry of Magic tried to temporarily cover up, were exposed by Harris TV, and the international community was in an uproar.
The ordinary German wizards, who were banned from watching TV, were even more angry that they had indirectly received news of the scandal in their own country after they had reported and provided information from other national magazines on British television, and then followed up with new reports.
Although the matter itself seems to be that the current Dark Lord attacked the previous Dark Lord, it is enough to anger more wizards, whether it is Germany or Europe - as the continent of Europa, where Grindelwald was mainly wreaking havoc, even ordinary wizards who did not suffer too much loss in Gringotts, their families have more or less suffered from the loss of their relatives because of the war of that year, and it is believed that now a Dark Lord has disturbed the peace of the wizarding world in various countries, and another Dark Lord of the previous generation will set off a storm.
The International Federation of Wizards gave a stern warning to Germany's mistake in imprisoning Grindelwald, and the British Ministry of Magic also advocated the formation of an investigation team to deal with the matter in Germany.
Wizards who had lost loved ones during the Grindelwald period and were dissatisfied with the status quo also took to the streets to protest against the stupid actions of the German Ministry of Magic in this incident, and this protest eventually caused dissatisfaction among the supporters of the previous Grindelwald idea, who did not feel that there was anything wrong with the original idea, and now it is clear that the former leader was attacked in prison after being unjustifiably imprisoned for many years, and now it is portrayed as if the two Dark Lords were going to join forces, which also led to conflict within the protesters。
For the German Ministry of Magic, this was not only a useless matter, they had to send a large number of Aurors to search for the missing traces of Grindelwald, but what made them even more anxious was that they now needed to divide their personnel to deal with these protests and the conflicts between them.
And yesterday there was an incident in which several media outlets that came to Germany to cover the protests were photographed together, and these protests completely got out of control.
In this thirteen-minute video, some radical protesters clash with the Ministry of Magic's striker, but a Muggle wizard standing on the side of the road is caught by mistake, and I don't know if it was the multi-day confrontation that caused the batter, who was also a pure-blood, to have a psychological problem- Surprisingly, instead of using the usual spells, the striker used the Muggle method he learned out of nowhere, kneeling on the neck of the Muggle wizard lying on the ground for seven minutes until the Muggle wizard suffocated to death.
On the video:
The striker knelt on the wizard's neck, one hand in his trouser pocket, and it looked as if his entire weight was on the victim's fragile neck.
The Muggle wizard looked already in pain, and he kept begging for mercy from the striker: "Please, sir, I can't breathe, don't kill me!"
But the striker remained unmoved, and continued to kneel on his neck, and said, "Then you can stand up for me, and you will be captured." ”
Although he kept telling the wizard under his knees to restrain his hands, the striker had no intention of standing up at all, and the other strikers just stood aside and kept the onlookers from approaching until the victim wizard's mouth and nose began to bleed and he lost consciousness.
The crowd of onlookers began to get agitated, but the fierce-looking striker made a gesture to draw his wand and continue to warn the crowd not to approach and not to meddle in their affairs - three minutes after losing consciousness, an Auror came over to push the strikers away and try to save the people, but in the end, the victim named George ended up losing his life in this inexplicable violent law enforcement.
This led to a downward turn in the German wizarding world, and the social environment and atmosphere deteriorated significantly, and there was unease, anxiety, fear, and dissatisfaction everywhere... Local wizards in Germany and even wizards from other countries took to the joints, crowds roamed the streets and alleys, and wizards could be seen protesting everywhere, holding signs with changing fonts such as 'I can't breathe' and 'Muggle wizards' lives are equally important, protesting in the wizarding world.
The wizards spontaneously began to gather in Frankfurt, and the Ministry of Magic sent strikers and Aurors to disperse and explain, but as the numbers became more and more disparity, Heinrich had to once again announce the retreat of his men.
Later, after an investigation by the German Auror Office, it was announced that the striker involved had been maliciously used to control the Imperius Curse, which quickly evolved into a riot covering the German wizarding world - even if the truth of the matter was, the German Ministry of Magic was no longer trusted by ordinary wizards during the incident, and now this matter is not so much about the wizards as a reason to vent their resentment and anger for many days.
Later, in Brandenburg-upon-Havre, known as the 'Cradle of Mark' in the Muggle world, another group of demonstrators gathered in the wizarding street here, and just over thirty minutes after receiving the report from the Ministry of Magic, the wizarding crowd at the corner of the street had begun to riot, looting and attacking businesses and vehicles - ironically, the victims did not care about the origin of these looters, and the identities of these looters themselves were varied, and there was no shortage of down-and-out pure-blood wizards.
The Minister of Magic, Hess, suddenly discovered that the original plan to just gamble and take advantage of the opportunity to earn a little fame not only completely failed, in addition to becoming a laughing stock of other countries, its subsequent influence was so huge and fatal - in a short period of time, the German wizarding community, which had been lacking in change for a long time, had temporarily lost control of it in a short period of time.