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By: Julia Stanton
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Social media posts by a 16-year-old sparked a police operation at a school in February.
Now one thing is certain: the films are not as harmless as assumed.
Schwerin – A school in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has been making headlines for a month.
In February, social media posts from a 16-year-old student triggered a police operation in the Ribnitz-Damgarten district.
The case has now even sparked a debate in the Bundestag.
Until recently it was said that the operation was started because of Smurf videos.
But now the Schwerin Ministry of Education and the Ministry of the Interior are making it clear that this is false information.
A student posts right-wing content on Tiktok, the school principal informs the police - and now there is a heated debate in the Bundestag.
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Police operation at school in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania because of posts with right-wing content
Screenshots of the posts show various lettering “that can be assigned to the right-wing extremist spectrum, as well as runic symbols and old German script with a laurel wreath,” according to the authority.
Specifically, it is about slogans like “nix yallah yallah” and “German is spoken in Germany,” which are partly from the neo-Nazi party “Der III.
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The student is said to have published this on the video platform TikTok.
The 16-year-old's Instagram profile also said: “home, freedom, tradition, multicultural final destination”.
However, the Interior Ministry also pointed out that no criminally relevant content could be identified.
The police only had an explanatory conversation with the student.
They pointed out risks and limits on the Internet.
Debate about police deployment at school: parliamentary groups accuse AfD of “smear campaign”.
The student's mother criticized the police operation in an interview with the newspaper
Junge Freiheit
- which describes itself as the mouthpiece of the New Right.
AfD politicians also expressed dissatisfaction with the officials' actions on several occasions.
AfD member of the Bundestag Beatrix von Storch said that she had filed a complaint against the school principal.
In the Bundestag, the AfD spoke of “surveillance state” methods in the plenary debate.
Other factions accused the AfD of an “orchestrated smear campaign” against the democratic constitutional state.
The party was abusing the student for its agenda of “lies, hatred and strife,” complained Anna Kassautzki (SPD).
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The school and the director in charge have now received numerous emails and threatening calls about the case.
The headmaster called the police when he found out what content the student was spreading.
The police initially decided not to publish the screenshots and their contents in order to protect the student.
Due to the public attention generated by the case and the misinformation circulating, the exact wording of the student has now been revealed, reports the
Berliner Zeitung.
In March there was another police operation at the school: they confiscated a poster with the inscription: “Love of homeland is not a crime”.
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