Jan Böhmermann: "AfD voters are bad satirists or right-wing extremists"

Satirist Jan Böhmermann, 38, sees no reason for leniency in dealing with AFD voters. He said to SPIEGEL: "27 percent in Saxony choose right-wing extremists, they are not protestors, they are either bad satirists or right-wing extremists who think they are not right-wing extremists."

Thus, even the accused main war criminals of the Nuremberg trials would have argued: "None of us was a Nazi, no one had anything to say, we just thought about what everyone else was thinking without thinking about Albert Speer was convinced that he was not a real Nazi . " (Read the whole story at SPIEGEL + here.)

As announced on Thursday, Böhmermann should switch to the ZDF main program from autumn 2020. The last "Neo Magazine Royale" is scheduled to run in December, and in the months after that, he and his team plan to revise the concept.

In the current SPIEGEL he says to the accusation, it contributes to the hardening to stigmatize people as rights: "You do not become a Nazi because someone proves that what you are thinking and doing qualifies you as a Nazi Unfortunately, it would not have happened before, because you would not have prevented National Socialism if you had stopped ranting Hitler a dangerous Nazi, and invited him to Maischberger or to the 'NZZ' interview instead, explaining his point of view Not."

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