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Federal Interior Minister Faeser comments on the cancellation of the Green Party's Political Ash Wednesday in Biberach.
She also indirectly criticizes Markus Söder.
Berlin – Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) has condemned the aggressive protest actions against the Greens.
“If a political event is prevented by mobs and violence, if police officers are attacked and stones are thrown, then boundaries have been massively exceeded,” said the SPD politician to the
editorial network Germany
.
She was referring to the events in Biberach, Baden-Württemberg, where an unannounced demonstration against the Greens' political Ash Wednesday escalated.
For security reasons, the party canceled its traditional event.
For Faeser, this is not an isolated case: she complained about the brutalization and poisoning of the discourse.
It is a case of border crossings “when democrats are defamed as 'traitors of the people', when an incited mob visits politicians at their place of residence or when rulers are symbolically hung on gallows.”
She held representatives of other political parties responsible in this context and criticized Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) for his radical choice of words without naming him.
According to Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, the current aggressions no longer have anything to do with sharp democratic disputes.
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Federal Interior Minister Faeser criticizes Söder's Margot Honecker comparison
Söder had dealt out Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) at his party's political Ash Wednesday in Passau: "Freedom for the hard-working and not always new requirements, requirements, requirements," he said.
“The Green Environment Minister, Ms. Lemke, is a prime example – this Green Margot Honecker,” the Prime Minister continued.
Margot Honecker, Minister for Public Education in the GDR from 1963 to 1989 and wife of the former GDR State Council Chairman Erich Honecker, was an SED hardliner and hated by large parts of the population.
According to Faeser, such a comparison is “poison for a political culture of respect that we urgently need.”
Martin Gross, political scientist at the LMU Munich, made a
similar statement to
IPPEN.MEDIA .
He said that “political competition is being poisoned by statements like those of Markus Söder” because they “currently fall on fertile ground in certain, radicalizing parts of society”.
Lemke himself described the CSU leader's comparison in the ZDF program “Markus Lanz” as “stupid” and “infamous”.
She suspected that Söder lived in his “own world,” which was “a big beer tent.”
Green Party veteran Jürgen Trittin also jumped to her side and wrote on X: “There is a direct line from Passau to Biberach.”
Green politicians are met with loud antipathy in many places
In Biberach, tractors had dumped a pile of dung in front of the event hall where the Greens wanted to meet.
Deafening tractor honks, whistles and chants of “Get out!” rang through the streets as demonstrators lit small fires and bengalos and tore stones from the cobblestones.
The aggressive mood culminated in the window of a vehicle accompanying Federal Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir (Greens) being smashed.
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While the farmers' association expressly distanced itself from the protest in Biberach, green politicians have experienced even more antipathy in recent days.
According to the
German Press Agency (dpa),
an angry crowd followed Ricarda Lang, the party's federal chairwoman, and her bodyguards in Schorndorf for around 50 meters and insulted them.
The police had to intervene.
Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) even confronted angry Protestants twice on Thursday.
Initially, around 50 people wanted to use tractors to deny him access to a nougat factory in Floh-Seligenthal, Thuringia.
However, he was already at work.
On the same day, around 350 participants in a protest organized by the Bavarian Farmers' Association in Nuremberg booed him and chanted “Get out!”
Habeck was actually there to
answer people's questions in a citizens' dialogue organized by the newspaper
Nürnberger Nachrichten .
(Michael Kister)