Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) on December 8, 2021 in Berlin
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According to information from the FAZ, the organization for which Nancy Faeser wrote a guest article is being observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. With a tweet, the minister has increased her problem.
So Nancy Faeser has never received many hearts for a tweet since she became Federal Minister of the Interior. Nearly
There were 40,000 as of Monday afternoon, and almost 5,000 retweets. That’s a good value – if that’s what counts. Faeser reacted on Sunday in the social network to criticism of a publication in “Antifa”, the magazine of the “Association of People Persecuted by the Nazi Regime – Association of Anti-Fascists” (VVN-BdA). The allegations from the “Junge Freiheit”, the AfD, the “Bild” newspaper and CDU MPs are “transparent”, she writes. “I have always shown a clear edge against right-wing extremism and all enemies of the open society – and will continue to do so.”
The publication dates back to last summer, when Faeser was still an opposition politician in Hesse. With the tweet, she justified the decision from back then to write for an organization influenced by left-wing extremists as Federal Minister of the Interior. Even if Faeser now gets a lot of applause from left-wing circles, she has made her problem bigger than it used to be.