Published in Antifa-Medium
Faeser defends himself against criticism after guest post
2/6/2022, 3:28 p.m
Federal Interior Minister Faeser receives threatening letters signed “NSU 2.0” and reports on them in a guest article. The medium that publishes it is considered by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution to be influenced by left-wing extremists. Now Faeser has to defend himself against criticism.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser defends herself against criticism of an older guest article for the publication of a left-wing association in which the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is interested. The allegations against her are transparent, wrote the SPD politician on Sunday on Twitter. “I have always shown a clear edge against right-wing extremism and all enemies of open society – and I will continue to do so.”
Last year – several months before she took office as interior minister – Faeser published a guest article in the magazine “antifa” in which she wrote about the large numbers of right-wing extremist threatening letters signed “NSU 2.0” that were sent out at the time, two of which she herself had received . At that time she was party and faction leader of the SPD in Hesse.
Because “antifa” is the magazine of the “Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime – Bund der Antifaschisten (VVN-BdA)”, which was described in 2020 in the Bavarian constitutional protection report as the “nationwide largest left-wing extremist influenced organization in the field of anti-fascism”, politicians from the Union and AfD criticized the SPD politician.
MEPs question suitability as interior minister
CDU interior expert Christoph de Vries told the “Bild”: “How should the employees of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, whose job is to defend the free and democratic basic order, feel when their top employer gets in touch with enemies of the constitution?”
The CDU member of the Bundestag, Christoph Ploß, made a similar statement in an interview with ntv: “Anyone who does not clearly distance themselves from left-wing extremism must not be the interior and constitutional minister of the Federal Republic of Germany.” The public has a right to “full clarification of the allegations.” Chancellor Olaf Scholz shouldn’t simply “go underground” on an issue that is so important for democracy.