Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Calls for a demo at Minister
Ramelow compares marches to Nazi methods
A demo against the corona measures in front of the house of the Thuringian Minister of the Interior is called on social media. Prime Minister Ramelow is appalled: He recognizes parallels to the actions of the National Socialist SA and speaks of a “traditional line of terror”.
Thuringia’s Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow was appalled by calls for a “corona demonstration” in front of Interior Minister Georg Maier’s house. It was “unbearable” when people specifically called to “march up ‘in front of the private houses of those in charge,” said Ramelow. “This is fatally reminiscent of the methods of the SA and obviously one no longer has any problems to move on this traditional line of terror,” said Ramelow.
The SA was a paramilitary organization under National Socialism. The background is that a demonstration in front of the private house of Maier and his family in the Gotha district was called on social networks. A spokesman for the state police department confirmed that such news was circulating on the network. You are currently checking this.
Ramelow said he showed solidarity with Interior Minister Maier and his family. “Really concerned citizens can now decide whether they really want to be mean with violence and intimidation,” said Ramelow. He called on the people in Thuringia to distance themselves from so-called walks, which only served to carry violence and intimidation in front of private residential addresses of politicians. “Defend yourself against this absorption by people who are not concerned about vaccination at all.”
Maier recently suggested that Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier should visit Saxony and Thuringia before Christmas. “Here in East Germany, the rule of law is particularly challenged, every day on dozens of illegal ‘walks’,” said Maier to the editorial network in Germany. Those who enforced the law felt the reactions immediately.
In Thuringia and Saxony, the vaccination rate is the lowest in Germany and the occupancy rate in hospitals is particularly high. At the same time, people are protesting against the measures to contain the corona virus.
More public support is needed for local politicians and police officers who are exposed to hostility in the course of the protests, said Maier. In the past week he himself received “stacks of hate messages” and a telephone death threat. The Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer had also been threatened.
In front of the house of the State Minister of Health Petra Köpping, around 30 people were raised with torches at the beginning of December, apparently in protest against the Corona policy. “These people have fantasies about overthrowing, they are enemies of democracy. That worries me very much,” said the SPD politician to the “Spiegel”.