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Next CDU scandal? Festival photo makes Amthor difficult to explain

2021-07-20T07:16:22.648Z


Snapshot next to the person wearing a solidarity T-shirt for a Holocaust denier? CDU young hope Philipp Amthor is fighting with bad allegations.


Snapshot next to the person wearing a solidarity T-shirt for a Holocaust denier?

CDU young hope Philipp Amthor is fighting with bad allegations.

Anklam / Berlin - With bad election campaign grades beyond the program, the Greens in particular had recently made unpleasant acquaintance.

Now the CDU is also on the defensive before the general election in secondary war theaters: A photo with two men makes the ambitious member of the Bundestag Philipp Amthor difficult to explain.

However, it is still unclear whether the snapshot is authentic.

Philipp Amthor: Posing next to supporters of a Holocaust denier?

Photo authenticity not yet clarified

The image, which was circulated on the Internet, shows Amthor at a horse festival between two men, one of whom is wearing a T-shirt showing solidarity with the convicted and imprisoned Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck.

Next scandal at the CDU: Philipp #Amthor is smilingly photographed with a neo-Nazi who demands solidarity with a Holocaust denier on his T-shirt.



Amthor is unbearable and unbearable!

# AmthorRücktritt pic.twitter.com/DWlosfYvWf

- Timon Dzienus (@Dzienus) July 19, 2021

"If I had noticed the t-shirt label, I would of course not have taken the photo," Amthor posted on Instagram on Monday.

Whether and to what extent the photo published on Twitter was edited cannot be determined for him with certainty, said the CDU politician.

Whether the photo had been manipulated could not be clarified beyond any doubt even after a review by the dpa news agency.

Bundestag election: Amthor laments "completely unobjective election campaign" - "I did not know the two citizens"

At the horse festival in Boock in Western Pomerania on Sunday, many people asked him for a photo, Amthor told the agency on Monday.

"I did not and do not know the two citizens and their background."

On Instagram, Amthor explains: “In any case, it is well known that I am fighting defensively against the opponents of our constitutional state in Berlin.” To want to put him in such a context is disconcerting and a sign of a “completely irrelevant election campaign”.

Amthor is the top candidate of the CDU in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for the federal election.

The incident is not Amthor's first presence with negative headlines: It was also the subject of a lobby scandal involving the US company Augustus Intelligence in 2020.

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Source: merkur

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