One evening in Jüterbog, a small town in Brandenburg, a few kilometers from Berlin, a meeting like so many where social anger, populism and the extreme right are mixed. This was held in November 2018. More than a hundred people came to listen to the member for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Beatrix von Storch.
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Henrik Schulze, the organizer of the meeting is delighted with the success of his "Stammtisch" . It is not the first "round table" it has organized to allow citizens to debate current or local issues. He says he is apolitical and proud to give the floor to an electorate forgotten by traditional parties. This time, it is about immigration and the elected member of the populist party does not hold its blows against Chancellor Angela Merkel and her policy.
[The German radical right] emerged from the shadow that the trauma of Nazism had cast over it and the margins of politics thanks to the success of the AfDIn the room, there are worried pensioners, active skeptics towards the CDU / CSU-SPD coalition, activists, shaved heads that are discreet… These do not speak to the press "who are lying"
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