Chapter 1178 ? I Can't Breathe
When Allen comforted Penello and fed her Sprite to calm her down, the situation in the German magic world has been boiling like a hot pot for the past few days, but it has not improved at all. The initial protest has begun to evolve into a riot. up.
At the very beginning after the bank was robbed, more people who were robbed gathered in front of Gringotts to protest. The amount that the goblins of Gringotts is willing to pay is far from what the victims demand.
Under the influence of the unscrupulous management habits in the magic world, the goblins themselves cannot determine how many Galleons their customers have stored in their vaults, and the value of some heirlooms such as artworks or magical objects is even more difficult to estimate. Faced with the full amount of compensation demanded by the victims, the goblins thought that many wizards were just taking advantage of the fire to make false reports—although they were indeed so.
Under the stalemate, the goblins simply closed Gringotts temporarily, and temporarily banned wizards from entering and handling business on the grounds of needing repairs. Rumors, under such a scene, many wizards panicked and wanted to withdraw their wealth because the treasury was deep enough.
People ignore the fact that Gringotts is a transnational organization of goblins at this moment - because the banks that goblins claim to be the safest have been proven to be no longer safe, so naturally there is discrimination and distrust of non-wizard creatures wizards Under the instigation of some rumors, those seeds of distrust germinated in their hearts.
The goblins turned to the Goblin Liaison Office of the German Ministry of Magic for help, hoping that the Ministry of Magic would provide support and come forward to coordinate. However, the original attempt by the German Ministry of Magic to prevent Hogwarts floating city from entering the airspace has become an international and domestic issue. The officials who made the joke really wanted to appease these protests and provide some positive information to the public, so led by Minister Hess, he successfully persuaded other families and goblins to focus on this difficulty at this time, providing a very good comparison Usually similar incidents require a lot more pensions and relief funds for those victims.
Except for those wizard families who were completely bankrupt and continued to have to make a living, the situation did get better in a short period of time.
But then, the attack on Nurmengard Prison, which the Ministry of Magic tried to temporarily cover up, and the disappearance of the first Dark Lord Grindelwald caused even more uproar in the international community after Harris TV broke the news.
The ordinary German wizards, who were banned from watching TV, were even more angry. They only obtained the news from their own country indirectly after they published a new issue based on the reports and information provided by British TV from magazines in other countries. scandalous news.
Although the matter itself seems to be that the current Dark Lord attacked the previous Dark Lord, this is enough to anger more wizards, whether they are in Germany or Europe-the continent of Europa, which was the main place where Grindelwald was mainly ravaged, even if it is not in Ordinary wizards who have suffered too many losses at Gringotts, their families have more or less suffered from the loss of their relatives because of the war that year,
People think that even a single Dark Lord has disturbed the magic circles of various countries, and there will be another Dark Lord from the previous generation to set off another storm.
The International Federation of Wizards gave a stern warning to Germany for the mistake of detaining Grindelwald. The British Ministry of Magic also advocated the formation of an investigation team to deal with the matter in Germany. Relying on pensions to appease people's hearts has done nothing.
Wizards who lost their loved ones during Grindelwald's time and were dissatisfied with the status quo also took to the streets to protest against the results of the various stupid actions of the German Ministry of Magic in this incident, and this protest eventually aroused the former Grindelwald. The dissatisfaction of the supporters of Devo's concept. They didn't think there was anything wrong with the original concept, but now it is obvious that the former leader was attacked in prison after being imprisoned for many years. It seemed like the two Dark Lords were going to join forces, which also led to conflicts among the protesting crowd.
As far as the German Ministry of Magic is concerned, this is not only useless. Originally, they had to send a large number of Aurors to search for traces of the missing Grindelwald. Hands to deal with these protests and conflicts between protests.
However, an incident happened yesterday. Several media outlets who came to Germany to cover the protests jointly photographed an incident, which completely caused these protests to get out of control.
In this 13-minute video, some radical protesters clashed with Ministry of Magic strikers, but a Muggle wizard standing on the side of the road was mistakenly arrested. This caused a problem with the mental state of this pure-blooded striker—unexpectedly, this striker did not use the usual spells, but directly used the Muggle method that he did not know where he learned, using Kneeling on the neck of the lying Muggle wizard for seven minutes, until the Muggle wizard suffocated to death.
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The striker knelt on the wizard's neck, with one hand in his trouser pocket, appearing to have his entire weight on the victim's vulnerable neck.
The Muggle wizard, who seemed to be in great pain, kept begging the batterer for mercy: "Please sir, I can't breathe, don't kill me! Mom!"
But the assailant remained unmoved, and continued to kneel on his neck, still saying: "Then you stand up for me and catch him without a fight."
Although he kept telling the wizard under his knees to be caught without a fight, the striker had no intention of standing up at all, and the other strikers just stood aside to prevent the onlooker wizard from approaching—until the victim wizard His nose and mouth began to bleed and he lost consciousness.
The mood of the surrounding crowd also became very agitated, but the fierce-looking striker made a gesture to draw his wand, and continued to warn the crowd not to approach and not to meddle in their own business—after losing consciousness for three minutes, an Auror rushed over , Only then did they push away these attackers to try to save people, but unfortunately, the victim named George finally lost his life in this inexplicable violent law enforcement.
This caused the situation in the German magic world to go downhill. The social environment and atmosphere have deteriorated seriously, and there are uneasiness, anxiety, fear, and dissatisfaction everywhere... Local wizards in Germany and even wizards from other countries have come to the joint, and people are wandering in the streets. In the alleys, wizards' protests and demonstrations can be seen everywhere. They held signs with changing fonts such as 'I can't breathe', 'Muggle wizards' lives are equally important', and protested in the wizarding world.
The wizards spontaneously began to gather in Frankfurt, and the Ministry of Magic sent strikers and Aurors to drive them away and explain, but because the number became more and more disparate, Heinrich had to let his people announce their retreat again.
Afterwards, after an investigation by the German Auror Office, it was announced that the assailant involved was maliciously used under the control of the Imperius Curse to do such a thing, and it quickly evolved into a riot covering the German magic world—even if The truth of the matter is indeed the case, but the German Ministry of Magic is no longer trusted by ordinary wizards in the double-turn incident, and now this matter is not so much for the wizards to seek justice, as it is to find a reason to vent their dissatisfaction for many days and anger.
Later, in Brandenburg an der Havel, known as 'Mark's Cradle' in the Muggle world, another group of demonstrators gathered in the wizarding commercial street here. After more than 30 minutes, the wizard crowd at the street had already started rioting, looting and attacking businesses and means of transportation—ironically, these robbers didn’t care about the origins of the victims, and the robbers themselves had various identities A down-and-out pure-blood wizard.
The Minister of Magic, Hess, suddenly discovered that the plan that was just a gamble to earn a little fame not only failed completely, but besides becoming the laughing stock of other countries, its follow-up influence was so huge and deadly——in a short period of time Within a short period of time, the German magic world, which had been lacking in changes and backwaters for a long time, had temporarily lost control of it in a short period of time.