A right-wing German politician has been found guilty of a hate crime for sharing statistics about a disproportionate number of gang rapes by immigrants, particularly Afghans, and questioning whether multiculturalism means embracing rape culture. He was fined several thousand dollars.
Marie-Thérèse Kaiser is a member of the right-wing Alternative for Germany. The 27-year-old women’s safety activist and former model is the only party representative in the Rothenburg district parliament.
While campaigning for the 2021 federal election, Kaiser posted on social media: “Hamburg SPD mayor calls for ‘non-bureaucratic’ acceptance of Afghan refugees, welcomes culture of gang rape?”
German newspaper Junge Freiheit
report Prime Minister Kaiser was reportedly responding to Socialist Mayor Peter Zentscher’s announcement in August 2021 that the city would take in 200 Afghan workers. Kaiser was clearly concerned about how the new group would affect local culture and safety.
Her post was reportedly accompanied by a graphic showing that Afghan and African asylum seekers are “proportionally 40 and 70 times more likely to engage in gang rape than Germans.” There is.
government statistics.
The then-AfD candidate cited statistics to justify concerns about uncontrolled immigration and the potential for rape by “culturally alien masses.”
background
Mass immigration into Germany from Middle Eastern countries such as Afghanistan has coincided with a surge in violent crimes such as rape in recent years.
Pew Research Center
shown Between 2010 and 2016, Germany took in more than 670,000 refugees and 680,000 refugees. Of the approximately 1.35 million immigrants who flooded into Germany during this period, an estimated 850,000 were Muslims.
A government-commissioned study found that violent crime rose by 10.4% in early 2018, at the height of the migration crisis overseen by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel had circumvented EU rules and effectively opened the union to Syria and Syrian migrants. other oriental states.Deutsche Welle
report 90% of this increase in violent crime is caused by immigrants, primarily men between the ages of 14 and 30.
In 2017, more than 10% of murder suspects and 11.9% of sex offenders were asylum seekers and refugees, although they made up less than 2% of the total population at the time, the BBC showed.
The situation has not improved.
Reuters
report Last month it emerged that the number of criminals with non-German backgrounds continues to grow. In 2023, overall crime increased by 5.5% and the number of suspects with a foreign background increased by 13.5%.
Richard Graupner from the AfD in Bavaria said: “What the AfD has been warning about for years can no longer be hidden…New crime statistics are sparking a debate about ‘foreign crime’.”
The imported crime not only claimed countless German lives, but also created terrifying new habits.
For example, New Year’s Eve appears to have become an annual night of immigrant riots.
Mass assault incident against German woman. Blaze News previously reported that two-thirds of the insurgents arrested in the New Year’s violent outburst were non-nationals, including 27 Afghans and 21 Syrians.
German Interior Minister Nancy Feser
said In the aftermath of January 4, “good politics must clearly state what is happening. In Germany’s major cities, certain young people with immigrant backgrounds are showing contempt for the state and committing acts of violence. The problem is that there is little access to education and education.
Anger over this imported phenomenon coincides with the rise of the right-wing party AfD, which has criticized the country’s immigration policies.
BBC
I got it. High-profile cases such as the brutal rape and murder of 19-year-old medical student Maria Ladenburger by Afghan criminals in 2016 “helped embolden the far right in this country,” he said. .
In fact, the German authorities seem to view the AfD as a problem, harassing and censoring party members. With his second national poll by the AfD and state elections scheduled for later this year;
discussion A complete ban on parties.
Freedom of speech ends and inconvenience begins.
Kaiser was reportedly charged and convicted of inciting hatred after expressing concern about very real issues plaguing the country. She appealed her sentence in February and she is scheduled to appear in court in May, she revealed.
“Just because the establishment doesn’t want to face reality, just citing numbers and dates and facts is considered a crime,” she said.
I have written “I will not tolerate silence.”
A court in Lower Saxony upheld the conviction on Monday.
The court was unmoved by Kaiser’s argument that freedom of expression in politics, particularly in electioneering, should enjoy special discretion in the spirit of democracy.
according to “Freedom of expression ends where human dignity begins,” the presiding judge told local media in Lower Saxony.
Kaiser was deemed an “exemplary defendant” by the judge at sentencing and must now pay more than $7,000 in fines.
Kaiser, who said on Instagram that the courtroom was packed with supporters along with his parents, said of the ruling: “The whole world is shocked by this decision by a German court. Even Elon Musk took up my case after… I received a lot of letters.” Letters from supporters and inquiries from the press. ”
The politician was referring to Musk’s response on Monday.
I have written“Are you saying the fine is for repeating accurate government statistics? Was there anything inaccurate about what she said?”
“Yesterday, my faith in Germany’s constitutional state was shaken once again, but all the letters have given me courage and confidence,” Kaiser added.
Marie-Thérèse Kayser’s original campaign video
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