Climate protection debate: AfD supports anti-Greta activists

The group was founded on a whim. Two weeks ago it was only a few friends from the autotuner scene who launched it on Facebook. But Fridays for Hub has more than 540,000 members.

Now the controversial Facebook group gets support from the AfD top. The party leader Jörg Meuthen told the SPIEGEL: "'Fridays for displacement' is a logical and reasonable response against the ideological insanity of eco-activists." Previously, the new Saxon AFD Group had the group advertised on Facebook.

Meanwhile, the AfD parliamentary group is fully focused on the climate issue. She plans a film project that deals critically with the climate activist Greta Thunberg, with the "eco-fan and the lobbyists who are behind it," said party spokesman Christian Lüth.

The group "Fridays for Hubraum" was founded at the end of September. Last week, the creators of the car tuner Christopher Grau had temporarily closed them because it had come to murder calls and rape fantasies against Thunberg.

Politicians of the ruling parties are watching the crowd for the group with concern. CSU national group chief Alexander Dobrindt told the SPIEGEL: "We want and must win the fight against climate change, and that will only succeed with acceptance by the citizens and not against the citizens."

Dobrindt defends the climate package of the Grand Coalition against his many critics: "Who wants to shift the cost of climate protection primarily to families, commuters and rural areas, which inevitably reaps protest and promotes the risk of a yellow-weighted movement in Germany," he told the SPIEGEL.

Moreover, the CSU politician warns against holding open debates on climate issues: "When climate-friendly speech becomes a social reality, and one can no longer say what one thinks, this deepens a split in our society."

Fridays for cubic capacity activist Christopher Grau, told the SPIEGEL opposite, the group is "impartial and open", he wanted in it "objectivity and not extremist shit". Take action against all members who violated the group rules: "Flashy accounts have no chance".

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