It was a politically motivated act of violence, even murder? The attack on the Bremen AfD-Chef Frank Magnitz carries dynamite. Because the AfD also makes the political opponents in the Bundestag responsible.
At the Theater am Goetheplatz in Bremen, the offender Magnitz hospital banged Mature
It is not the first Time that the AfD is the target of attacks. Inserted disks, and a wrecked car – the knew the right-wing populists in Germany’s smallest Federal state of Bremen already. With the attack on Frank Magnitz, the Chairman of the Alternative for Germany, Bremen, has reached the violence-now, however, a new level.
Three Masked Magnitz who sits for the AfD in the Bundestag are to be beaten, on Monday evening, with an object on the head and severely injured. As he was already on the ground, to Magnitz continue to be attacked. Passers-by discovered the lying on the ground Magnitz and called an ambulance. State protection police Bremen suspect a political act. They have formed a special Commission to find the attacker.
“Agitation against the AfD”
Leading politicians from all parliamentary parties condemned the attack. Not only party friends, as well as many political opponents wanted Magnitz in Interviews and social media for a speedy recovery. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert writes on Twitter that he hoped the perpetrators would soon be caught.
Magnitz itself speaks of an assassination attempt on him. His party spread is a picture of the heavy in the head injured deputies. “I am absolutely shocked by this disgusting act,” said the AfD group Chairman Alice ryegrass in a Facebook popular Video. You could just say, “that the agitation against the AfD and the medial Goings-on against a democratically elected party is bearing fruit.”
Political opponents in the pillory
AfD chief Gauland formulated in the DW-Interview with a somewhat more restrained: “This is an increase of the exclusion that we experience everywhere.” He also provides the context for dealing with the AfD in the Bundestag, and the fact of Bremen: “This is a further increase of the undemocratic behaviour in the Bundestag,” says Gauland. By the designation of the AfD as a non-democratic “calls on you, Yes, essentially, thugs, to be physical. And that’s happened here. And exactly this is the cause, then people can’t tell the difference between deed and word.”
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Some AfD members and supporters to make individual politicians from other parties for the attack is partly responsible. The Deputy SPD Chairman Ralf Stegner, who had attacked the AfD in the past, verbally sharp.
“Verrohungs Specialists”
“I have been using violence at all, nothing in common. I do not approve of you, it does not justify, condemn you, no matter against whom it is directed” Interview, said Stegner in the DW. Just against the rights of democracy, the enemies we must proceed, however, with all the peaceful and political means. “And I do. I’m also not intimidated,” says Stegner. He accuses the AfD that you had for cleavage and agitation in Germany. “The Verrohungs specialists are at the party, called Alternative for Germany, and, in fact, a disgrace for Germany.”
Frank Magnitz sits for the AfD since 2017 in the Bundestag
The deed was perpetrated by left-wing extremists, then this is part of a group would be “violence-oriented” to the left, the estimates of the Federal office for the protection of the Constitution to 9000 people. In the year 2017, the office was one of 162 cases, in which left-wing extremists used against representatives of right-wing groups to violence. In two cases, left-wing extremist had sought to have motivated the perpetrators to kill their victims.
Frank Magnitz will stay a few days in the hospital. He said that the Doctors kept him still till the weekend, said the 66-Year-old. The fact that he had only a little memory, because he had lost due to the blows to the consciousness.