Left-wing demonstrators in Germany called for supporters of the populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) to be killed during a rally against political extremism.
Amid last weekend's nationwide protests in which organizers said more than 1 million people rallied against the right-wing AfD, it was ironically the left that revealed it had extremists.
Report from left-wing liberals Achener Zeitung newspaper On Sunday, he praised local demonstrations. The city of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia opposed the AfD and claimed around 10,000 people took part.
celebratory articleThe headline read, “Aachen unites against right-wing hatred,” and the lead image of the report showed a demonstrator holding a banner reading “Afdler Toten,” which was replaced by “Support for AfD.” It is translated as “Kill the person.'' Images also showed masked protesters wearing the familiar black Bloc uniform waving flags of the radical leftist group Antifa.
However, the article was quietly amended after observers noted calls for potentially criminal violence by left-wing demonstrators. changed A less extreme picture also didn't feature Antifa-style extremists.
Nevertheless, questions remain, especially given that the original image showed police officers near a banner calling for the killing of AfD supporters, but no arrests were made during the protests. do not have.
A major liberal newspaper in Aachen, Germany, published an article about antifa protests against the AfD party, which ranks second in the nation. The headline was “Aachen protests against right-wing hatred''. Their photo on the event's marching banner read: “Kill AfD voters.” pic.twitter.com/p3JlKdAMoP
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Gunnar Lindemann, AfD member of the Berlin House of Representatives, said: Said He announced on social media that he had filed a criminal complaint with Cologne police over the banner.
police spokesperson Said of Junge Freiheit The newspaper reported that the images would be sent to “the public prosecutor's office for a decision.” A spokesperson said it was “unknown at this time” why no action was taken during the protests.
The incident came amid weekend protests across Germany in response to calls for the AfD to be banned and a report sponsored by the government and left-wing activist groups such as the Soros Open Society Foundations. . The report claimed that several low-ranking members of the AfD attended the rally. A November meeting is said to have called for German nationals with immigrant backgrounds to be deported.
The report was disputed by several parties present at the meeting, including members of the centrist Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Despite the denials, Olaf Scholz's government and traditional media used the clearly fabricated scandal as a welcome distraction from the struggling German economy and the peasant revolt against Berlin and the EU's neoliberal globalist policies. did.
Scholz openly supported the protests in a video on Friday, saying that “right-wing extremists are attacking our democracy” and that Germans “must stand firm.” Scholz has so far not commented on left-wing extremists calling for the killing of AfD supporters.
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