A tweet by Markus Söder is currently going viral on Twitter.
The users are not very happy about his statements about the shooting of wolves.
Bavaria - "Protecting people from wolves and bears comes first!" This is how Markus Söder from the CSU begins a tweet about the spread of wild animals in Bavaria.
He seems to be absolutely correct in his view of "get rid of the predators".
But the users on the net and thus also the voters see the debate a little differently.
Söder causes a shit storm on Twitter – "removal" of wolves should be "significantly simplified".
The politician paid a visit to the municipality of Oberaudorf near the Austrian border.
Grazing animals have recently been killed here.
"The #wolf doesn't belong here," says Söder on Twitter.
But it goes on.
The state government has "significantly simplified" the "removal" of wolves.
“Our alpine and pasture farming must be protected from the danger of misunderstood predator protection.
It shapes our centuries-old cultural landscape,” says Söder.
The government would stand firmly with the farmers.
"In Bavaria's beautiful nature, you have to be able to move freely and do business sustainably without fear," concludes the politician on Twitter.
But Söder seems to have made his calculations without the users on social media.
"Markus Söder is a big populist who is probably up to his neck before the elections," writes a user under the post.
"It's a good thing that wolves have always belonged in Germany, just like bears, otters and bison.
Man is the rusty foreign body in nature,” says another.
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"Euphemism for shooting down" – Twitter users rage under Söder's post
But the shit storm on Twitter goes even further: "Here, too, only a euphemism for shooting down is taken," says a comment.
"It must be this Christian preservation of creation," says another user.
“Grazing animals were killed, not people.
People just tore their mouths apart," summarizes one user.
The protection of humans from wolves and bears has top priority!
Therefore today visit to the place near #Oberaudorf where grazing animals were torn.
The #wolf doesn't belong here.
That is why we as the state government have now significantly simplified the removal of wolves.
Our… pic.twitter.com/26rQH0SsFm
— Markus Söder (@Markus_Soeder) April 26, 2023
In Bavaria, the shooting debate seems to be more about bears than wolves.
In the Rosenheim district, a bear recently caused a stir because it is said to have torn several grazing animals.
The Free State was promptly targeted for this on Twitter.
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