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Attack in Nice: aid organization Sea-Eye files charges against AfD politician Georg Pazderski

2020-11-01T08:53:32.627Z


After the attack in Nice, the aid organization Sea-Eye filed charges against an AfD politician. He had claimed there was a connection between the rescue missions and the attack.


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Mourning the crime scene in Nice

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The German aid organization Sea-Eye has filed a criminal complaint with the police against the AfD politician Georg Pazderski at the Regensburg police.

The occasion was a message from the Berlin politician in the online service Facebook, announced the organization based in Regensburg on Saturday evening.

In a press release the aid organization stated that the Berlin right-wing populist had spread the word that the crew of the "Alan Kurdi" could be partly responsible for the death of the terrorist victims in Nice.

In his statement on Facebook he referred to "research" and published a picture with the headline "German 'Alan Kurdi' brought Nice assassins to Europe" without naming specific sources for his claim.

According to information from Sea-Eye, the right-wing extremist news portal Journalistenwatch had previously reported on connections between an "Alan Kurdi" rescue mission and the terrorist attack in Nice.

Pazderski spread "the untruth in order to abuse the grief and dismay of the people and to incite them against sea rescuers", said Gorden Isler, chairman of Sea-Eye.

Accusations and insults have increased since the Facebook post

The assassin from Nice did not get to France on board the "Alan Kurdi", said Sea-Eye.

Since Pazderski's statement on Facebook, however, the club has received more accusations, insults and serious allegations.

"Here a right-wing populist is trying in the most shameful way to exploit the suffering of the victims and their relatives, as well as the concern of the people, for its own political agenda," criticized the Sea-Eye board.

"This attack must have consequences," he demanded.

Since the association was founded in 2015, Sea-Eye has saved over 15,000 lives.

The organization stands for life, for human rights and for civil engagement.

"We were all terribly horrified by this terrorist attack and condemn it in the strongest possible way," said Isler.

Third suspect caught

According to the investigators, the alleged assassin in Nice is a 21-year-old Tunisian named Brahim Issaoui.

According to the current state of the investigation, he only arrived in France a day or two before the crime, he had come into the country via Italy.

He first killed a man and a woman on Thursday in the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice in the south of France;

an injured woman was able to flee to a bar but died there from her injuries.

The French police have now taken a third suspect into custody after the alleged Islamist attack.

The 33-year-old was on Friday evening during the search with another suspect in his apartment, it was said on Saturday from French judicial circles.

"We're trying to clarify his role in the whole thing."

There are now a total of three men in the focus of the investigation.

The police had previously arrested a 35-year-old who is suspected of having been in contact with the alleged bomber the day before the attack.

A 47-year-old is also charged with this, he is also in custody.

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Source: spiegel

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