The demonstrations against right-wing extremism in many German cities last weekend took place without significant incidents. No special incidents have been reported. But now the Public Prosecution Service in Aachen is investigating into incitement to commit crimes. There was a poster there with the inscription ‘Kill AfDlers. Deporting Nazis” was noted.
The investigation is currently targeting unknown persons. Several people held up the poster, as seen in images shared on social media. The poster was displayed on Saturday at an Antifa demonstration in the western German city of Aachen, which police said also attracted a middle-class crowd. At its peak, about 10,000 people took part in the protest march against the right. Originally only 150 people were registered. Since then, police have received numerous questions about the poster.
The AfD’s deputy federal spokesman, Stephan Brandner, accused the German federal government of calling for demonstrations and accepting that “the murder of opposition politicians would be openly called for.” The demonstrations were “organized and carried out by extremists from the left-wing extremist camp and were also hijacked by Islamists and anti-Semites,” Brandner said. It was a ‘total state propaganda show’.
Ex-State Secretary for Culture: “Hate was preached”
At some demonstrations in other cities, more innocent statements were also criticized. A few days ago, the philosopher and former State Minister of Culture Julian Nida-Rümelin was impressed on Facebook by the scale of the demonstration in Munich, but complained: “What is less nice is the attempt to undermine this commitment by small radical groups.” instrumentalize who functioned as organizers.” Democratic parties such as the SPD, the Greens, the FDP, but also the Union were attacked. “Many posters were against hate, hate was preached from the podium,” he wrote.
‘All of Berlin hates the AfD’
During Sunday’s demonstration in Berlin, hatred and agitation from the right were also condemned, but at the same time, “All of Berlin hates the AfD” was repeatedly chanted from the ranks of the demonstrators.
Reports of a meeting with right-wing extremist activists in Potsdam, attended by several AfD politicians, said the party was not harming its membership development. When asked, a spokesperson said that approximately 1,400 new admission applications were received between January 10 and 22. During the same period, there were layoffs “in the mid-double digits.”
At the same time, the right-wing populist party has lost popularity, according to two national election surveys. In the weekly survey by polling institute Insa for the newspaper ‘Bild’, which was published on Tuesday, the party fell from 23 percent – the highest figure so far in this survey – to 21.5 percent. In the Forsa survey for the RTL/ntv trend barometer, it lost two percentage points and now stands at 20 percent. However, the AfD remains the second strongest force, after the CDU/CSU.
Source: Krone
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