"Hang the Greens": Saxony's authorities tolerate posters calling for murder

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Members of the party »The III.

Weg «at a demonstration in Chemnitz in 2018

Photo: Jan Woitas / picture alliance / dpa

It is a provocation, very typical for right-wing extremists: You call for violence, but remain sufficiently vague to be able to say afterwards that everything was meant completely differently.

This scam is apparently enough to be allowed to post a notice of murder in Saxony.

"Hang the Greens" and "Vote German" are on posters that the right-wing extremist small party "The III. Weg «according to a report by the» Tagesspiegel «, for example in Zwickau, Plauen, Auerbach and Werdau. The posters appeared for the first time on Sunday and were placed, for example, in Zwickau exactly in front of the party headquarters of the Greens.

The Saxon authorities justified the fact that they were allowed to stay there for the time being, saying that it was not clear which Greens should be killed.

You don't know "who is being addressed specifically," said a spokesman for the Zwickau public prosecutor's office in the Tagesspiegel.

Both politicians and voters of the party could be meant.

In addition, no specific threat situation has been identified.

However, it is possible that the city will issue a prohibition order for the poster in the coming days.

The local Greens reacted in shock, according to the report.

The Bundestag candidate Wolfgang Wetzel therefore spoke of "an attack on democracy and decency", district spokesman Thomas Doyé said they expected the posters to be removed immediately.

The police in Munich seem to handle the poster differently: A photo posted on Twitter shows the officials hanging out the campaign.

Sol