AfD causes horror and disgust: migrants and disabled people are discriminated against

AfD causes horror and disgust
Discriminates against migrants and disabled people

Riots in Rhineland-Palatinate: A district parliamentary group of the AfD describes in a letter two people with disabilities as “problem cases” and migrants as the reasons for the unemployment rate. Interior Minister Roger Lewentz is shocked, politicians criticize the AfD for using Nazi language.

The AfD parliamentary group in the Bad Kreuznach district assembly caused horror with its written statement on the budget. As possible reasons for the unemployment rate, the group mentions migrants and “the high social spending, in whose hammock many people seem to be resting”. In the text, among other things, two disabled people are discriminated as “problem cases”, who “due to their pathological anti-social behavior” burdened the group with “a barely comprehensible sum”.

Interior Minister Roger Lewentz expressed indignation. “That disgusts me, this choice of words and the intention behind it,” said the SPD politician in Mainz. CDU District Administrator Bettina Dickes called it “inhumane” and “anti-social” to write such sentences about two young men who were handicapped and seriously ill from birth, one of whom unfortunately died. With these written statements “every limit was exceeded”.

Memories of the Nazi regime

The SPD politician Carsten Pörksen was also concerned that the AfD’s formulation reminded him of the “darkest time in our history”. He said that he himself had a severely and multiply disabled sister who his family had to hide from the Nazis during World War II so that “she would not be murdered as an unworthy life”. Other district council members also criticized the AfD for using Nazi language.

The parliamentary groups had submitted their speeches in writing before the meeting because the pandemic meant that it was only digital. Below the text are the names of the five members of the parliamentary group, including first of the chairman Lutz Haufe, who, according to the district party board member Jürgen Klein, left the party in June. But he is still chairman of the parliamentary group in the district council.

The AfD district executive distanced itself from the speech, said Klein. “We reject the evaluation and the language that our former member chose!”, It says on the party’s homepage. The AfD state party and the state parliamentary group did not initially respond to a request.

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