Tech mogul Elon Musk believes “Only the AfD can save Germany,” referring to the populist, anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany party. The Donald Trump and Nigel Farage ally offered this endorsement in response to a video posted by Naomi Seibt, a Geman conservative commentator previously dubbed “the anti-Greta Thunberg.”
“Dear Elon, thank you so much for your note,” said AfD co-chairwoman Alice Weidel in a video response to the statement by Musk, who is of partly German descent.
“The Alternative for Germany, the AfD, is indeed the one and only alternative for our country; our last option, if you ask me,” she continued, wishing Musk, President-elect Donald J. Trump, and the American people “a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.”
Currently, the AfD is polling well ahead of Germany’s ruling Social Democrats, their junior coalition partners, the Greens, and their former coalition partners, the neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP). However, the AfD is behind the notionally center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), formerly led by Angela Merkel. Additionally, all of Germany’s establishment and far-left parties enforce a so-called cordon sanitaire against the AfD, barring any cooperation with the populist party.
Tech mogul Elon Musk believes "Only the AfD can save Germany," referring to the populist, anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany party. The Donald Trump and Nigel Farage ally offered this endorsement in response to a video posted by Naomi Seibt, a Geman conservative commentator previously dubbed "the anti-Greta Thunberg."
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Members of several parties in the Germanparliament are set to introduce a motion to begin the process of banning the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is currently seeing success after success in regional elections. More than the 37 German lawmakers required to introduce the motion support it, including members of the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) and their Green coalition partners, the Left Party, and the notionally center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) formerly led by Angela Merkel.
The parliament cannot outright ban political parties by itself, so the motion calls on the German Constitutional Court to begin proceedings to ban the AfD. It also argues that the AfD should be cut off from all public party financing.
However, not all lawmakers support the motion. SPD politician Gesine Schwan warns the ban process could be “politically counterproductive” and actually increase public support for the AfD.
Sahra Wagenknecht, whose left-populist BSW party has also seen recent election success, called the move “the stupidest application of the year.” While economically left-wing, Wagenknecht shares some of the same concerns about mass migration as the AfD and is seen as socially conservative on many issues.
German politicians have been talking about banning the AfD for at least a year, with CDU lawmaker Marco Wanderwitz drafting legislation last October. Since then, the AfD has come second in state elections in Saxony and Brandenburg and finished first in Thuringia. Support among the German youth is surging for the party, with some polls showing it to be the most popular among young voters.
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Members of several parties in the German parliament are set to introduce a motion to begin the process of banning the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is currently seeing success after success in regional elections. More than the 37 German lawmakers required to introduce the motion support it, including members of the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) and their Green coalition partners, the Left Party, and the notionally center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) formerly led by Angela Merkel.
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The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) finished an agonizingly close second to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) in elections in Brandenburg this past weekend.
This follows the AfD’s significant performance in other eastern states, including a recent first-place finish in Thuringia and a close second in Saxony.
Per the BBC:
Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) won Sunday’s regional election in stronghold Brandenburg by just one or two percentage points, according to polls by the two main public broadcasters.
Alternative for Germany (AfD) stood a chance of winning the state, which has been governed by the SPD since German reunification in 1990.
But after voting ended at 18:00 (16:00 GMT), predictions put the SPD on 31 to 32% to the AfD’s 29 to 30%.
The AfD’s rise is part of a broader trend among rightist groups in Europe, who are dominating on concerns about economic slowdown, immigration, and the Ukraine-Russia war.
These issues are notably prevalent in formerly Communist eastern Germany.
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The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) finished an agonizingly close second to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) in elections in Brandenburg this past weekend.
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The right-populist, anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won state elections in Thuringia and near-tied the establishment Christian Democratic Union (CDU), formerly led by Angela Merkel, in Saxony. The AfD has won an enormous share of the youth and working-class votes, in particular.
Led by Björn Höcke, the AfD in Thuringia is projected to have won over 33 percent of the vote on Sunday, up around 10 points on their previous showing in 2019. The CDU looks to be far behind, at around 25 percent. The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), a new, left-populist party that opposes mass migration, is third, at around 15 percent.
Meanwhile, Chancellor Olaf Scholz‘s left-wing Social Democratic Party (SPD) is at around 6 percent. His party’s coalition partners, the far-left Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP), have a statistically zero percent share of the vote.
In Saxony, the AfD appears to have secured a near-tie with the CDU, with both coming in around 40 percent. The SPD seems to have secured around 7 percent—its worst-ever result in Saxony. The Greens and FDP have also fared poorly, with the latter dropping to under one percent—their worst-ever result in any state election.
While the AfD and the notionally right-wing CDU would enjoy legislative supermajorities in a coalition, the latter has refused to work with the former under any circumstances. Despite Merkel declaring multiculturalism had “utterly failed” in 2010, she opened the borders during the 2015-16 migrant crisis, with the SPD and its partners displacing her party after four terms in office in 2021.
However, the SPD has experienced a rapid collapse in support due to migrant crime worsening under their stewardship, and the Russia sanctions war and net zero policies driving up costs.
It will be difficult for the CDU to form governments without the AfD, given the level of support the populists achieved, and the unpopularity of attempting to form a “grand coalition” with the SPD and other left-leaning parties.
Germany’s establishment right, left, and far left also face long-term challenges, with the AfD winning a large plurality of the working-class vote in Thuringia and Saxony, and performing very strongly among younger voters. There are signs Germany’s youth are increasingly unhappy with mass migration and multiculturalism, with the viral song “Foreigners Out” spreading over the summer.
France’s President Emmanuel Macron faces a similar situation. The success of Marine Le Pen‘s populist National Rally (RN) in the recent European and national elections has left his faction in the legislature unable to form a government without the help of various far-left parties.
Preliminary final results show far-right AfD (ESN) winning 30.6% of the vote. This is the party’s best result ever at a Saxon regional parliament election.
The right-populist, anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won state elections in Thuringia and near-tied the establishment Christian Democratic Union (CDU), formerly led by Angela Merkel, in Saxony. The AfD has won an enormous share of the youth and working-class votes, in particular.
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A journalistic watchdog has published a scathing review of a prior report from a George Soros-funded group, which alleged members of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party were holding a secret conference to discuss deporting all people with a migration background from Germany, even if they are citizens.
The Übermedien expert group slammed the leftist activist group Correctiv for its misrepresentation of the facts. The watchdog also blasted the German mainstream media for being entirely uncritical of the claims made by Correctiv about a conference in Potsdam earlier this year that was attended by members of the AfD and Austrian anti-mass migration activist Martin Sellner.
The Correctiv report, which won awards in German media and sparked left-wing protests involving hundreds of thousands of people, is deeply flawed, according to the watchdog, noting a recent court case in which Correctiv outright admitted there was no formal talk of plans for the mass expulsions of migrants by the AfD.
“It has long been obvious how problematic Correctiv reporting and its reception are. And at the same time, how much a critical examination of it is lacking in large parts of the serious press,” the watchdog said.
FAKE REPORTS PROMPTED BANS FROM GERMANY.
Martin Sellner spoke at the Potsdam conference about the “remigration” of illegals and those who refuse to integrate into German society to their homelands, but Correctiv was accused by Übermedien of taking a few fragments of sentences he said, twisting them, and comparing his ideas to Naziethnic cleansing.
The watchdog was especially disturbed by the comparison to the Wannsee conference made by Correctiv in its reporting. The Wannsee conference was the first major meeting to decide on the implementation of what would become the Holocaust.
As a result of the misleading report, Martin Sellner was banned from entering Germany, despite the internal open borders of the European Union (EU) and the close links between Germany and Austria.
SOROS GROUP INVENTED ‘DEPORTATION OF MILLIONS’ PLAN.
Übermedien also notes that only two people in the conference spoke about remigration, but Correctiv implied that the entire conference was actively planning to deport millions of people from Germany.
The Correctiv report even opened by saying, “High-ranking AfD politicians, neo-Nazis and financially strong entrepreneurs came together in November in a hotel near Potsdam. They planned nothing less than the expulsion of millions of people from Germany.”
Correctiv had to note that Sellner had not said that he wanted to use unlawful means to deport anyone, and that others had even said deporting those with German passports was impossible.
REPORT DIVIDED THE POPULIST RIGHT.
The Correctiv report also had some repercussions on the AfD’s relations with other European populist parties. French National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen said she was reconsidering her party’s then-alliance with the AfD because of the report.
Following the European Parliament elections, the AfD had to go its own way and split from other leading populist parties, forming the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) group along with other smaller parties from across Europe.
Le Pen and others joined with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban to form the Patriots for Europe group, whhile Italy’s Giorgia Meloni remains in the more establishment-friendly European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), effectively splitting the populist right.
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A journalistic watchdog has published a scathing review of a prior report from a George Soros-funded group, which alleged members of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party were holding a secret conference to discuss deporting all people with a migration background from Germany, even if they are citizens.
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Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has unilaterally banned the right-wing, pro-Donald J. TrumpCompact Magazin, accusing the publication of fostering “hatred” of migrants and ethnic diversity. “The ban shows that we are also taking action against the intellectual arsonists who stir up a climate of hatred and violence against refugees and migrants and want to overcome our democratic state,” Minister Faeser said.
“Our signal is very clear: We will not allow ethnic definitions of who belongs to Germany and who does not,” she added.
Several people associated with the magazine, including publisher Jürgen Elsässer, had their homes raided following the ban on July 16. Police also seized the magazine’s assets.
Compact is well-known for its links to the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which lawmakers in Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, are also trying to get banned. The magazine is also noted for being skeptical of Western involvement in the Ukraine war, blaming NATO expansion for the conflict.
Brandenburg state interior minister Michael Stübgen, a member of the so-called “center-right” Christian Democratic Union (CDU) formerly led by Angela Merkel, has said all of Compact‘s social media channels will be scrubbed from the Internet, with their content deleted and revenue confiscated.
Earlier this year, Minister Faeser, who previously wrote for far-left Antifa publications, announced the government would be banning anyone declared a far-right extremist from owning firearms. The government will also trace people who donate to allegedly far-right individuals and groups.
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Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has unilaterally banned the right-wing, pro-Donald J. TrumpCompact Magazin, accusing the publication of fostering "hatred" of migrants and ethnic diversity. "The ban shows that we are also taking action against the intellectual arsonists who stir up a climate of hatred and violence against refugees and migrants and want to overcome our democratic state," Minister Faeser said.
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Public backlash over migrant crime and the rise of the populist right has prompted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to adopt a tougher stance on immigration, despite his prior support for open-door policies.
Facing plummeting public approval and a surge in anti-mass migration sentiment, Scholz’s government has endorsed legislation allowing deportation for foreigners advocating violence on social media, following a fatal attack by an Afghan migrant at a mass migration rally that sparked widespread anger.
“It outrages me when someone who has found protection here commits the most serious of crimes,” Scholz claimed. “Such criminals should be deported, even if they come from Syria or Afghanistan.”
Crime statistics show a significant increase in offenses involving migrants, with foreigners comprising just 14.6 percent of Germany’s population but accounting for 58.5 percent of all violent crimes.
Scholz’s proposed deportation bill faces challenges, including constitutional issues and logistical hurdles in deporting individuals from countries such as Syria and Afghanistan that are deemed unsafe.
Scholz, under pressure to address migration concerns before next year’s federal elections, has attempted diplomatic agreements to facilitate deportations.
His change of course comes after a populist surge during last month’s European elections, as the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) beat Scholz’s Social Democrats and their coalition partners in the far-left Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats.
Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, remarked last month that the surge of support for populist parties was shifting the Overton Window on issues like mass migration.
In the same way the left shifted the Overton Window towards the climate change agenda, populists are shifting the Overton Window against mass migration, argues @RaheemKassam. pic.twitter.com/CsrZIfWPhA
Public backlash over migrant crime and the rise of the populist right has prompted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to adopt a tougher stance on immigration, despite his prior support for open-door policies.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz admits his government’s support is crashing in part because it is supporting the NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. Scholz says voters harmed by dueling sanctions have shown their discontent “in the election results”—but he insists there is “no alternative” to the current policy.
The anti-mass migration, eurosceptic Alternative for Germany (AfD) placed above Scholz’s Social Democrats in the European Parliament elections, as well as the far-left Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats who make up the incumbent coalition government.
The AfD is especially dominant in the former East Germany, where the Social Democrats are polling as low as seven percent ahead of regional elections in September. Scholz says the prospect of AfD state premiers is “very depressing.”
The notionally center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), formerly led by Angela Merkel, appears more willing to shift its position on Ukraine. Current leader Friedrich Merz, formerly a war hawk, is now lobbying for peace talks, saying, “We must see that we open up possibilities for how to bring this conflict to an end at some point.”
Polls project Merz to replace Scholz as Chancellor after the German federal elections in 2025.
Scholz also expressed some regret over the German government’s draconian crackdown on citizens during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
“There were a few decisions that were over the top,” he now admits, citing sweeping school closures and a ban on forest walks.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz admits his government's support is crashing in part because it is supporting the NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. Scholz says voters harmed by dueling sanctions have shown their discontent "in the election results"—but he insists there is "no alternative" to the current policy.
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Results in the European Parliament elections across 27 European Union (EU) member states are mostly in, with the biggest news being the shellacking of Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance Party by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France. With his party having received only around half as much support as Le Pen’s party, President Macron has called a snap election, commencing at the end of June—a battle the former Rothschild banker is better equipped to fight on short notice than the populist leader, given his support from the corporate media and donor class.
Despite no truly earth-shattering populist breakthrough in Europe beyond France, as discussed by Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, on Sunday, France was not the only point of interest in the European elections.
GERMANY.
The EU is often said to be driven by a Franco-German axis, and the German government was also shaken on Sunday. While the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party did not achieve as much support as Le Pen’s National Rally—which may form an alliance with the smaller right-populist Reconquest Party in the snap election, according to Marion Marechal—it placed ahead of the Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats, and far ahead of his coalition partners in the far-left Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats.
The 13.9 percent secured by the Social Democrats is its worst result in a national election since the end of the Second World War. Support for the far-left Greens has halved in five years. Before Scholz became Chancellor, the “center-right” Christian Democratic Union (CDU) under Angela Merkel had led the government for four consecutive terms, and its dire European results indicate it is likely to end up back in opposition after a single term.
The CDU, which topped the polls, is not a true conservative party, with Merkel governing as an open borders globalist despite winning support by declaring multiculturalism had “utterly failed” in 2010. Still, the party contains factions that are stronger on immigration, and these are likely to be empowered by the success of AfD, with the CDU forced to adopt more populist policies to stave off their ascent.
The German results speak to a growing divide between liberal former West Germany and ex-communist former East Germany, with the East being much more supportive of the AfD than the West.
While Macron has called a short-notice national election to try and reassert his authority after a heavy loss in the European elections, Alexander De Croo, the globalist Prime Minister of Belgium, has flat-out resigned. His Flemish Liberals and Democrats party (Open VLD) was hammered at the ballot box, crashing to 5.8 percent support.
The so-called “far-right” Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest), which sits with Le Pen’s party in the Identity and Democracy euro-group in the European Parliament, achieved modest gains to place first overall. New Flemish Alliance, a more “moderate” but still populist-leaning party, which sits with the also more “moderate” but still populist-leaning European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) euro-group, was a close second.
Both are anti-mass migration, eurosceptic parties that support breaking Belgium up into Flemish-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia, spelling trouble for a small nation that boasts outsized significance in the EU as the seat of its de facto capital of Brussels.
At first glance, the results for the populist right in Poland were not good. The national conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, which lost office to a globalist coalition after two terms in government last year, came second. It is the first time the party has placed second in a national election, including the last national and the recent local elections, since 2014, being eked out by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition (KO) by around one percent.
However, the even more overtly populist Konfederacja (Confederation) party moved into third place, tripling its support compared to the last European election in 2019. While its share of the vote, at a little under 13 percent, may seem low overall, Confederation appears to have room to grow. It is the most popular party among Poles aged 18-29, with over 30 percent support.
Lewica (the Left), one of Tusk’s coalition allies, lost over half its support compared to 2019.
VISEGRAD PLUS.
The picture across the rest of the Visegrad—Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia—was also mixed.
Hungarian leader Viktor Orban’s party placed first, but with less support than in 2019—although after four consecutive terms in office nationally, any government would likely be losing some support at this point in its life cycle.
Slovak leader Robert Fico, recovering from an assassination attempt he has blamed on the globalist opposition and corporate media linked to George Soros, gained nine points compared to 2019, but placed second overall. Fico’s coalition partners, the relatively new Republika and Hlas parties, also gained around 12.5 and 7.2 percent. Republika gained just 0.2 percent in 2019, and Hlas did not even contest the last European election.
In Czechia, populist former prime minister Andrej Babiš’s ANO party won the European elections for the third time in a row, with increased support. Perhaps more interestingly, the populist Přísaha and Motoristé (Oath and Motorists) coalition secured a surprise third-place finish, with their colorful leader Filip Turek—a former racecar driver—promising to show up to the European Parliament in a car with a “large carbon footprint.”
Austria, which is not a Visegrad member but aligns with the Central European mini-bloc when the populist right is in the ascendant in Vienna, produced perhaps the most positive results, with the “far-right” Freedom Party (FPÖ) roughly doubling its 2019 support and placing first. Party leader Herbert Kickl is already pressing Le Pen to let the AfD back into the Identity and Democracy euro-group, with the German populists having been ousted after an embarrassing gaffe involving a qualified defense of the Waffen SS. Nationally, the FPÖ wields more influence than the AfD, with the CDU-like Austrian People’s Party being willing to form coalitions with the Austrian populists in order to govern.
IBERIA.
Spain’s populist Vox party continued its rise, hitting 9.6 percent support—up from 1.6 percent in 2014 and 6.2 percent in 2019—to place third overall. The establishment right Partido Popular (PP) also made considerable gains to place first, ahead of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists. PP has worked with Vox, albeit reluctantly, at the regional level, showing that the populists can have an outsized impact on national politics.
Portugal’s version of Vox, the new Chega party, has burst onto the scene even more successfully than its Spanish counterpart, placing third on around 10 percent at its first attempt.
THE NETHERLANDS.
With the Netherlands’ longtime populist leader Geert Wilders poised to form a government following the Dutch national elections—though he is not, as POLITICOerroneously reports, the country’s prime minister—his Pary for Freedom (VVD) was being watched closely in the EU.
Although it did not place first, it greatly increased its vote share, from 3.5 percent to 17 percent.
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Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (FdI) party was perhaps the best-performing populist party in the European elections after Le Pen’s National Rally, placing first with its vote share up from 6.5 percent to around 30 percent.
While this meteoric rise suggests Meloni has staying power, it comes at the expense of Lega (League), Matteo Salvini’s populist party, which has crashed from over 34 percent—an even better result than Meloni’s—to just under 10 percent.
Meloni has also been a great disappointment in government. While the establishment feared she would be Italy’s most right-wing leader since Benito Mussolini, she has embraced legalized mass migration, achieved little on illegal immigration, and obsessed over Ukraine and sucking up to Joe Biden instead of delivering on her populist campaign platform.
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Results in the European Parliament elections across 27 European Union (EU) member states are mostly in, with the biggest news being the shellacking of Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance Party by Marine Le Pen's National Rally in France. With his party having received only around half as much support as Le Pen's party, President Macron has called a snap election, commencing at the end of June—a battle the former Rothschild banker is better equipped to fight on short notice than the populist leader, given his support from the corporate media and donor class.
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Heinrich Koch, a 62-year-old local council candidate for Alternative for Germany (AfD), was stabbed on Tuesday night after confronting a young man who was pulling down political posters in Mannheim. Last Friday, an Afghan migrant attacked a Mannheim anti-Islamization rally organized by the Citizens’ Movement Pax Europa (BpE). Islam critic Michael Stürzenberger and a police officer named as Rouven L. were among the people stabbed by the Afghan, with the officer later dying.
AfD state chairman Markus Frohnmaier said he was “shocked and dismayed” by Koch’s stabbing. National spokesman Tino Chrupalla said the populist party’s “members and representatives are the most frequent victims of political violence” in Germany, but this would not stop them. Koch was reportedly wounded in the stomach and ear and is currently hospitalized.
He captured the incident on video, and the footage is circulating on social media, with some sources describing the attacker as ANTIFA. However, as of the time of publication, this is unconfirmed, and he remains at large.
The AfD is one of several anti-mass migration parties in Western Europe that is expected to make a significant breakthrough in the European Parliament elections later this month. Recent polls have the party either tying or leading the governing Social Democrats, with a significant advantage over its coalition partners, the far-left Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats.
The AfD’s increasing support increasingly perturbs the German political establishment. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has suggested the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution could ban the populist party as a right-wing extremist organization. The notionally center-right Christian Democrats, formerly led by Angela Merkel, have also been working on legislation to outlaw the party.
Der Angriff auf #AfD-Mitglied Heinrich #Koch im Video: Mit ihrer Hetze gegen die Opposition schaffen Ampel & Medien ein Klima, in dem selbst vor extremen körperlichen Attacken nicht mehr zurückgeschreckt wird. Wir verurteilen diese Gewalt und fordern dazu auf, sich endlich auf… pic.twitter.com/M8NSeYhaPy
Heinrich Koch, a 62-year-old local council candidate for Alternative for Germany (AfD), was stabbed on Tuesday night after confronting a young man who was pulling down political posters in Mannheim. Last Friday, an Afghan migrant attacked a Mannheim anti-Islamization rally organized by the Citizens’ Movement Pax Europa (BpE). Islam critic Michael Stürzenberger and a police officer named as Rouven L. were among the people stabbed by the Afghan, with the officer later dying.
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