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Journalists at AfD Demo attacked
Reporting on the activities of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) gets tricky trains. Now were in an AfD Demo attacked journalists. It’s not name calling like “Lügenpresse”.
A photo of the rally, with Björn Höcke participated, the controversial Chairman of the AfD faction in the Thuringian state Parliament
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In an AfD Demonstration in Magdeburg are journalists have been attacked. A camera crew was out of the crowd with pepper spray attacks, said a police spokesman. The journalists were medical supplies. The alleged perpetrator was provisionally arrested him expect a lawsuit due to bodily injury.
Number of participants fall
To the Demonstration of the right-wing conservative AfD were according to police, around 600 participants. In mid-December, there were 750 have been, in November, around 1500. To a a counter-demonstration participants after Polizeiangaben 150 people.
In the social media made the incident quickly circulated. Eyewitnesses reported and also affected. As announced in the Second German television about the microblogging service Twitter, that her cameraman in the face had been made.
Several journalists in #Magdeburg #AfD-Demo-train out with #Mace sprayed. Our ZDF-cameraman hit in the face.
— ZDF Saxony-Anhalt (@ZDFmagdeburg) 27. January 2016
ml/wl (dpa)