As of: January 19, 2024, 6:03 p.m
By: Kilian Beck
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Hubert Aiwanger and a Berlin Green Party candidate clash on Twitter.
Aiwanger wasn't too serious about the truth.
Berlin/Munich – Bavaria’s Deputy Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger (Free Voters) tweets.
Some days a lot, some days less.
Recently he has spoken out more about the farmers' protests.
Last week he called for protests at the Brandenburg Gate on Friday (January 19).
The Green EU election candidate Jan-Denis Wulff from Berlin then asked him: “Are you also speaking against right-wing extremism at a demonstration?
Question for democracy.” Aiwanger reacted – as we know him from talk shows – with a counter question: “You mean where 21 police officers were injured by left-wing demonstrators?
Question for your colleagues.”
Aiwanger's self-dramatization: He wants to show the traffic light government in Berlin what a rake is.
© Lennart Preiss/dpa
Aiwanger compares left-wing extremist splinter groups with demonstrations against right-wing extremism
Aiwanger was probably alluding to the Luxemburg-Liebknecht memorial demonstration in Berlin on January 15, the anniversary of the murder of the two communists in the Weimar Republic.
The demonstration escalated when the police temporarily arrested a speaker for a “criminal” anti-Israel “slogan”.
According to police reports, 21 police officers were injured and 14 demonstrators were arrested.
Two arrest warrants have now been issued, reported
ARD
.
The demonstration with around 3,000 participants is a traditional “social happening” of the radical left, wrote the
taz
.
Part of this is the colorful potpourri of left-wing extremist splinter groups.
But that's not what Wulff meant.
After AfD secret meetings with right-wing extremists in Potsdam: Civil society across the country is standing up against right-wing extremism
In his question, Wulff alluded to the demonstrations against right-wing extremism in many cities in the republic.
These are the reaction of a broad civil society alliance to the publications of the investigative portal
Correctiv
.
On January 10th, the portal revealed a secret meeting of AfD politicians, right-wing extremists and entrepreneurs in Potsdam in November 2023. There, the Austrian right-wing extremist Martin Sellner is said to have developed a plan to deport millions of people, including, in his view, “unassimilated citizens”. have spread.
Since then, the debate about a ban on the AfD and other ways in which democracy can defend itself has been in full swing again.
Aiwanger calls for “distancing” from left-wing extremism
Aiwanger reposted his pointed question to Wulff on his Twitter feed.
Wulff commented: Aiwanger should join the demonstrations against right-wing extremism and “not portray them as criminal.”
On Friday, Aiwanger posted a screenshot from the website of the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
He writes that the “focal points” of left-wing extremist groups in Bavaria are Munich and the greater Nuremberg area.
The demos against right-wing extremism were “often infiltrated by left-wing extremists”.
He expects “all Democrats and the federal government to distance themselves” from left-wing extremism.
He recently accused the SPD and the Greens of being to blame for the rise of the right-wing extremist AfD.
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