Millions of German taxpayers to finance far right propaganda
The German government is preparing to give 70 million euros a year to a foundation run by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). The Desiderius Erasmus Foundation will be able to spread its far-right propaganda with taxpayers’ money.
According to the guidelines of the German parliament (Bundestag), a parliamentary group is entitled to state funds for its own foundation if it has been represented in parliament for more than one legislative term. The AfD entered the Bundestag for the first time in 2017 and, according to the guidelines, is eligible for financing following the Bundestag elections to be held in September this year.
The hatred of Hanau and its enablers
The Hanau terror attack showed just how dangerous racist conspiracy theories can be. And yet it is a threat that continues to be underestimated. Commentary by Daniel Bax
Hanau marked a turning point. After the shootings, Chancellor Angela Merkel used the word racism for the first time. She even convened a cabinet commission against racism and right-wing extremism, which presented a comprehensive list of measures in November 2020. Even Interior Minister Horst Seehofer could not avoid speaking after the attack of a trail of blood left by right-wing terrorism .
The shootings in two shisha bars in Hanau marked the culmination of a bloody year, which saw a series of attacks that began in June 2019 with the murder of Kassel s District President Walter Lubcke and then claimed the lives of two people in Halle in November. Had the perpetrator there succeeded in breaking open the synagogue s heavy wooden door, a massacre would have occurred.
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The right-wing extremist murders in Hanau, Germany, one year on
One year after the Hanau murders, when right-wing extremist Tobias Rathjen killed nine strangers eight men and one woman aged between 20 and 37 the background to this crime has still not been clarified.
The authorities are sticking to their version of a “confused lone perpetrator,” who also injured six others, some seriously, in the attack. Many unanswered questions point to links to right-wing terrorist networks that reach deep into the state. The murders are the result of profoundly right-wing politics.
For the bereaved, the enumeration of the names of those killed (#Saytheirnames) is more than a duty to prevent the memory of their loved ones from being cast into oblivion. It is a symbol for the active fight against right-wing terrorism. They want to ensure that Hanau is “not a transit station, but the final terminus of right-wing terrorism,” as the father of one of those killed put it.
Berlin Police Called Out to Antifa Stronghold over 700 Times in 2020
21 Feb 2021
Police in the German capital of Berlin were called out to the area around the Antifa stronghold of Rigaer 94 a total of 717 times in 2020 to deal with incidents ranging from violence to threats and property damage.
Police were called out to the building, which has been partially illegally occupied for years by far-left Antifa militants, to deal with hundreds of different offences, according to a Berlin senate response to a question posed by libertarian Free Democrat MP Paul Fresdforf.
A total of 157 investigations by police revolved around reports of assaults, threats and insults against police officers, while another 90 investigations involved assaults on other people, German newspaper