“AfD threatens people”
Thousands demonstrate in front of the AfD party headquarters in Hamburg
January 13, 2024, 10:00 a.m
The solidarity between right-wing extremists and AfD members causes horror – also in Hamburg. Around 2,000 people took to the streets under the motto “Against the fascist deportation plans of the AfD and the Union of Values”. They are calling for the party to be banned.
Around 2,000 people demonstrated in front of the AfD party headquarters in Hamburg on Friday evening. The event was registered by the Jusos Hamburg Nord under the name “Demo against the fascist deportation plans of the AfD and the Values Union,” as the police announced. “The demonstration was peaceful, there were no crimes,” said a spokesman. On posters there were inscriptions such as “Whoever votes for AfD, chooses hate. Whoever chooses hate, kills people” or “Colourful instead of brown”.
The meeting was triggered by the research results published on Wednesday by the media company Correctiv on a meeting of radical right-wing circles with extremists and AfD officials in Potsdam. At the meeting, the leader of the right-wing extremist Identitarian movement, the Austrian Martin Sellner, presented ideas on how more foreigners could leave Germany and how people with a history of immigration could be pushed to assimilate.
Organizer and Jusos member, Leo Schneider, told NDR at the demo: “We are here because the AfD is threatening people. We as a society want to stand in front of these people to protect them from the AfD.” During the rally, police buses were parked in streets around Schmiedestrasse. Police officers blocked the entrance to the AfD office.
“The Correctiv research reveals the disturbing reality behind the scenes of the AfD,” said the chairman of the Hamburg Jusos, Kemir Čolić. “It is frightening to see how politicians from this party, including members of the federal executive committee, operate in right-wing extremist circles and work on plans that are directly against our constitution.”
According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the AfD is not an object of observation in Hamburg. For the Hamburg Jusos, however, it is clear: the AfD should be banned. “We cannot wait until the AfD wins its first elections,” Čolić told the Hamburg Journal. He called for the AfD to be monitored nationwide and in all state associations and for a ban to be started.