In Romania, the German minority and President Klaus Iohannis of a new defamation campaign to face. Also, the social democratic government involved. Berlin condemns the slander.
“This is not one of us. This is one of those here,” calls out an older woman excited, pointing to a biography of Hitler in your Hand and says the Romanian President Klaus Iohannis. “This is not a real Romanian”, agrees a man in t-shirt and rubber Slippers.
Almost a hundred mostly older people on Saturday in Bucharest in front of the building of the Prosecutor General’s office to demonstrate against the liberal-conservative Iohannis and for the social-democratic government.
President Iohannis belongs to the German minority, and since 2014 in the office. More than six million Romanians have elected him to the head of state – in spite of a smear campaign in the election campaign.
The images of the small Demo with a brown tongue, over and over again in the Pro-government TV shown stations. The message needs to be widely scattered: The President is a “Stranger” who acts against the interests of the Romanians.
Klaus Iohannis, has condemned the police action against peaceful demonstrators.
Solidarity with the police
The action was planned as a support for the Romanian gendarmes, who had resolved two weeks ago, a mass demonstration of civil society brutally. More than 100,000 Romanians were on 10. August went to the square in front of the government Palace for an independent judiciary and against the corrupt government on the road. As violent Hooligans ready mixed among the peaceful protesters and the gendarmes were attacked, these were solid with tear gas and batons to take action against the crowd. Older people, women and children were injured. Journalists have been deliberately hindered in their work, and by the gendarmes beat up. Over 700 injured, meanwhile, have filed a lawsuit against the Gendarmerie. The Prosecutor’s office determined.
The crackdown by the police against demonstrators caused outrage
That is why the planned Demonstration in front of the headquarters of the attorney-General, to be a sign of “solidarity” with the brutal gendarmes. That only just under a hundred people followed the call, speaks volumes.
Campaign against Iohannis
That would focus the action mainly against the President, is no Surprise. Iohannis had used the police on 10. August against the peaceful protesters as a disproportionate restriction of democratic rights, condemns and urgent investigation is required. In addition, he accused the social Democrat-led government, irrational behavior, and against the interests of their own citizens acted.
That now but the membership of the President of the German minority again reinforced as an Argument against him and in connection with Nazi Germany is brought up, is obviously a sign that his opponents are getting restless. A few days ago, the powerful head of the social democratic party, PSD, Liviu Dragnea, the characters to the political attack, as he brought the impeachment of the President into the game. Iohannis did not answer for the mass demonstration, the President, act in the interest of Romania and should be indicted also treason.
PSD-Chef Liviu Dragnea
Dragnea is a criminal record and not government should be the chief guides, but as President of the chamber of deputies, the fortunes of both the government and the Parliament. To be condemned In a further procedure for abuse of office in the first instance to a prison sentence, he is waiting on the final verdict.
To spread from time to time, he is in the same connected TV channels abstruse conspiracy theories. The last story has it all: In April of 2017, four dark-clad men are supposed to have in the order of a wealthy and mysterious Stranger to assassinate him. There had been a clear sign. In addition, it was informed by a friend about it. But he said that he want neither the police nor the intelligence services or the office of the public Prosecutor is switched on. The story has a number in Social media to be a huge salmon.
Allusion to Nazi Germany
Not funny at all the recent Statements from other leading social Democrats. The Chairman of the education Committee in the Senate, Liviu Pop, claimed the former Minister of education, a few days ago in a TV show, Iohannis I, as Chairman of the Democratic forum of Germans in Romania (the newly founded organization of the German minority after the turn of 1989), as a sort of “successors of the Nazi-Organisation” of the German minority acts. Therefore, it is no wonder that he can make decisions, which were directed against the Romanian people.
Against this statement there was a first opinion of the Federal government Commissioner for repatriation issues and national minorities, Bernd Fabritius. In a Letter to the Romanian Senate President, and the foreign Ministry in Bucharest, Fabritius recalled the commitment of the Romanian state to protect its national minorities against any slander. The unfortunate defamation campaign of the last few months against the German minority have reached a new level of quality, wrote of the CSU-politician and added that the attacks by prominent politicians from the PSD were to condemn the “unacceptable and decided to!”
Bernd Fabritius: The defamation campaign “is unacceptable and strongly condemn.”
New Verbal Attacks
Also the top representatives of the German minority in Romania, protested strongly against the Kapmpagne. However, as yet, without effect. Because only a day later, a new attack came, this time from the social-democratic Minister of labour, Lia Olguta Vasilescu, a close Confidant Dragneas. Because President Iohannis had condemned the massive use of tear gas against the civilian population, she said in a TV broadcast: “Who speaks as a ‘neamtz’, as a German, gasification, need to be especially brave!” The allusion to the Nazi period was not evident.
“Neamtzul”, the German is at fault, also called the few people on Saturday afternoon during the protest against Iohannis. Then they made their way back to their apartments, the pictures of your courageous action in “their” government-friendly TV channels, the admire Time and again. Meanwhile, Romanian artists and journalists in the Social media of their clear attitude, with the Hashtag #neamtztoo – We are also German.