Katharina Schulze (Greens) speaks about Islamism on Instagram - and is in an amazingly good mood.
There is indignation on social networks.
She sees herself as a victim of a campaign.
Munich - Thousands of people followed the developments in Vienna on Monday evening via Twitter, both spellbound and affected, when a video by the Bavarian Green parliamentary leader Katharina Schulze suddenly appeared.
In an amazingly good mood, she spoke about her work as a domestic policy spokeswoman and a corresponding package of applications against Islamism from 2015. After the recent attacks in France, she looked at it again, the 35-year-old says with a beaming smile.
"I thought, hey, there were really smart things in there."
Katha Schulze's answer to Islamic terror.
With a grin on his face, Schulze explains how sorry she is not #France.
Then she advertises her oh-so-great package of measures: “Taking a closer look” and promoting democracy should help against terrorist attacks.
#Vienna pic.twitter.com/6gBZxfgPxB
- £ UKAS 🇩🇪 (@Random_Lukas) November 2, 2020
The video went viral, the excitement about Schulze's good mood was great.
Also with colleagues: "The infantilizing Green Katja Schulze explains her sympathy for victims of terrorism with a smiling face," wrote the FDP member of the Bundestag Thomas Sattelberger, apparently so angry that he gave Schulze the wrong first name.
And Florian Streibl, leader of the Free Voters parliamentary group in the state parliament, says: “Ms. Schulze's video does not do justice to the seriousness of the situation in our neighboring countries.” Even in their own party, not everyone is happy with the appearance - some fear that the video stick to the group leader for a while.
"I see it as part of my job to be approachable and approachable on different channels and to inform about politics."
Katharina Schulze
The episode shows how dangerous social networks can be for politicians - and that tough methods are used there.
Because the recording is already a few days old and comes from a live link on Instagram, where younger people in particular can get in touch with politicians.
She sat on her couch at home and answered a multitude of very different questions, says Schulze.
“I see it as part of my job to be approachable and approachable on various channels and to provide information about politics,” she says.
“Unfortunately my streams are flooded with hatred and agitation again and again.
It becomes clear that there is no interest in a substantive discussion, but rather campaigns are being run and disinformation is being carried out. "
In this case, too, they probably wanted to harm Schulze: Actually, Instagram Live is not archived - the recording was probably made specifically and then posted on the Internet at the worst possible time.
It was posted by a semi-anonymous user who describes himself as conservative and who posted his employee ID for the Union faction in the Bundestag in the summer.
The CSU regional group did not want to comment on the process yesterday.
What remains?
A lot of excitement.
A video that is likely to haunt the net for a long time - and Katharina Schulze's very serious clarification: "I fight against every enemy of democracy, regardless of whether they are racists, anti-Semites or Islamists."