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Supporters of the neo-Nazi party »The III.
Weg «in Chemnitz (archive picture)
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“Hang the Greens!” Was election posters of the right-wing extremist splinter party “III.
Weg «to read in Zwickau.
Now the city has asked the party to remove the posters within three days.
The city administration announced this on Wednesday.
If this does not happen, the city will remove the posters itself.
The reason given was that the slogan was a violation of public order and human dignity.
Sebastian Lasch, head of the regulatory affairs department, explained: “Anyone who hangs up such works should take them off again themselves.
If necessary, however, we will have the posters removed. "
According to a report by the Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel, the posters appeared for the first time on Sunday, in Zwickau, Plauen, Auerbach and Werdau.
In Zwickau they were placed right in front of the party headquarters of the Greens.
The Greens had filed a complaint about the posters.
The motive is a public invitation to crime.
However, the Zwickau public prosecutor did not initiate an investigation because the posters did not constitute a request for a specific act.
Strange reason given by the public prosecutor's office: Both politicians and voters of the party could be meant.
The local Greens reacted in shock.
The Bundestag candidate Wolfgang Wetzel spoke of "an attack on democracy and decency", district spokesman Thomas Doyé said they expected the posters to be removed immediately.
According to the Greens, the »III.
Away «the posters also hung in northern Saxony, Vogtland and Leipzig;
there should be reported in each case.
The posters have also appeared in Munich.
There, however, they did not wait for the right-wing extremists to show their understanding and to clear away their malicious slogans themselves:
The police took action themselves and removed the posters.
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