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Outrage over the social media post by the Hesse SPD on Walter Lübcke

2023-01-07T12:54:12.631Z


SPD reacts to CDU outrage over social media post: "campaign noise" Created: 2023-01-07Updated: 2023-01-07, 1:40 p.m By: Katja Thorwarth, Diana Rissmann Became a victim of right-wing extremist Stephan Ernst in 2019: Walter Lübcke. © Uwe Zucchi After violent reactions, the SPD Hessen has deleted its post on social media about the CDU and the Lübcke murder. The allegations against CDU interior mi


SPD reacts to CDU outrage over social media post: "campaign noise"

Created: 2023-01-07Updated: 2023-01-07, 1:40 p.m

By: Katja Thorwarth, Diana Rissmann

Became a victim of right-wing extremist Stephan Ernst in 2019: Walter Lübcke.

© Uwe Zucchi

After violent reactions, the SPD Hessen has deleted its post on social media about the CDU and the Lübcke murder.

The allegations against CDU interior ministers remain.

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The Hessen-SPD wants to contain the discussion about their social media contribution to the murder of the Kassel district president and CDU politician Walter Lübcke.

The controversial contribution was withdrawn on Friday because it had been misused by political opponents, said the deputy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group, Cord Wilke, on Saturday.

With their outraged reactions, politicians from the CDU tried to distract from their own responsibility in the fight against right-wing extremism.

Hesse's SPD general secretary Christoph Degen explained that the tweet came from the state parliamentary group, with which the party operates a joint account on Twitter.

However, the authorship is clearly marked for each contribution.

Degen said: "Nancy Faeser is the state chairman of the party and no longer belongs to the group."

CDU outraged by SPD tweet: CDU should "shift down a gear"

The SPD politician called on the CDU to "shift down a gear".

When it comes to “the dirtiest campaign ever run by the Democrats”, those responsible should remember their own campaign against dual citizenship or slogans like “Stop Ypsilanti, Al-Wazir and the Communists” from 2008.

SPD faction leader Günter Rudolph had also accused the CDU of “campaign noise”.

A new state parliament is expected to be elected in Hesse this fall.

Outrage over the social media post by the Hesse SPD on Walter Lübcke

First report from January 7:

Wiesbaden – With regard to the state elections in autumn, the Hessian SPD is apparently already in the middle of the election campaign mode and is attacking the CDU – but with a tweet they have now caused great outrage: With a view to the state parliament investigation committee on murder to Walter Lübcke (CDU), the SPD had distributed a black and white collage with photos of Hessian CDU politicians under the title "More than fifteen years of domestic political failure" on Thursday (January 5), thus indirectly blaming the CDU for the murder of Kassel District President given.

The Secretary General of the federal CDU, Mario Czaja, criticized on Twitter: "The action not only affects us and makes us sad.

Walter Lübcke and his family members did not deserve this style.” On Friday evening, the controversial post was no longer available on the Hessen-SPD Twitter account.

According to the SPD's Lübcke tweet: The "dirtiest election campaign" the Democrats have ever done

Several members of the Bundestag from the Union expressed their outrage.

This is the "dirtiest election campaign that Democrats have ever done," wrote the CDU federal executive board member Serap Güler.

But there was also criticism outside of the CDU: Konstantin von Notz, Vice President of the Greens in the Bundestag, spoke of a “complete political derailment”.

In its post, the Hessen SPD had asked: "Had the murder of Dr.

Walter Lübcke can be prevented?

The responsible Interior Ministers Bouffier, Rhein and Beuth were obviously overwhelmed with the political leadership of the LfV.” LfV stands for State Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

The collage shows, among other things, the former Prime Minister of Hesse, Volker Bouffier, the incumbent Prime Minister, Boris Rhein, and Hesse's Minister of the Interior, Peter Beuth (all CDU).

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SPD triggers outrage: Tweet about Walter Lübcke is "tasteless"

The chairman of the Hessian CDU parliamentary group in the Lübcke investigation committee, Holger Bellino, called the social media posting "tasteless and completely inappropriate".

The Hessian SPD parliamentary group firmly rejected the criticism.

“Politics lives from discourse, as does social media.

The fact that the CDU is now trying to make their mistakes ours cannot be surpassed in terms of absurdity," said Günter Rudolph, leader of the SPD parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament.

"The CDU's election campaign bluster fails here and any misinterpretation of the tweet is dishonest."

In all meetings of the committee of inquiry in the Hessian state parliament into the assassination of the Kassel district president, the SPD parliamentary group came to one conclusion: "There were misjudgments and poor work and the political responsibility lies with the changing interior ministers of the CDU," explained the SPD politician.

The CDU politician Lübcke was shot dead by right-wing extremist Stephan Ernst on the night of June 2, 2019 on the terrace of his house in the Kassel district.

The state parliament investigation committee was set up in 2020 to investigate the role of the Hessian security authorities in the murder case.

(dir/dpa)

Source: merkur

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