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Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow: speaks of unbearable appeals
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The anger and hatred of the corona deniers are increasingly directed against individual representatives of the state.
In Thuringia, the call to demonstrate in front of the house of Interior Minister Georg Maier (SPD) is causing outrage.
Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) said it was “unbearable” when people specifically called for “to march in front of the private houses of those in charge”.
"This is fatally reminiscent of the methods of the SA and obviously one no longer has any problems to move on this traditional line of terror," said Ramelow.
The SA was a paramilitary fighting organization of the NSDAP in the Weimar Republic and in the "Third Reich".
In social networks, people were asked to demonstrate in front of the house in the Gotha district where Maier and his family live.
A spokesman for the state police department confirmed that such news was circulating on the network.
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Ramelow said he showed solidarity with Interior Minister Maier and his family.
"Really concerned citizens can now decide whether they really want to be mean with violence and intimidation," said the Prime Minister.
He called on the people in Thuringia to distance themselves from so-called walks, which only served to carry violence and intimidation in front of private residential addresses of politicians.
"Defend yourself against this absorption by people who are not concerned about vaccination at all."
Death threats against Saxony's Prime Minister
Maier would not be the first politician to have such a march in front of his house.
At the beginning of December, several dozen right-wing extremists gathered in front of the home of the Saxon Health Minister Petra Köpping (SPD).
Then Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) spoke of "methods that the SA invented".
In addition, the police in Saxony last week arrested several suspects who are said to have forged plans to murder Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU). The members of a Telegram chat group, which combines the rejection of vaccinations, the state and the current corona policy, "expressed in the aforementioned chat group and at non-virtual meetings, among other things, plans to kill the Saxon Prime Minister and other representatives of the Saxon state government," it said the State Criminal Police Office of Saxony.
In the SPIEGEL interview, Kretschmer called for crackdown on Telegram.
"Anyone who only hears lies there for months or even years will no longer recognize the truth," he said.
You see an effort to adhere to basic rules on Twitter and Facebook, but not on Telegram.
“Nobody takes responsibility there.
That will not do.
There must be no unlawful spaces on the Internet. "
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