The police state security is investigating because of the publication of a new hate video against the Berlin right-wing extremist and self-proclaimed “people’s teacher” Nikolai Nerling. He had published a video on the Internet on Saturday in which he mocked the victims of the racially motivated attack with nine dead in Hanau a year ago and linked the memory of them with hate speech.
Hanau’s Lord Mayor Claus Kaminsky (SPD) filed a criminal complaint against Nerling on Monday, as the city announced the next day. “In the video, the right-wing blogger insults and mocks the victims of the attack, defamed them as criminals and propagated an imminent ‘race war’, the city announced.” In addition, he denied the perpetrators’ racist motives and served those who were hostile to migrants. “
The Berlin police and the police headquarters in Southeast Hesse are concerned with the process, a police spokesman told the German press agency on Tuesday.
In the 19-minute video, Nerling claims that it was “simply not cleared up” who committed the attack a year ago. In fact, the investigations clearly revealed that the 43-year-old Tobias R. had shot nine people in several locations in the Hessian city on the evening of February 19, 2020, before allegedly killing his mother and then himself. He had previously had pamphlets and videos published on the internet with conspiracy theories and racist views.
A year later, Nerling tried to reinterpret the memory of the victims as a state-endangering process. The danger does not come from right-wing extremism, he claimed in his clip – but from “Migrantifa” and Antifa. “These are terrorist organizations that want to see blood.”
Nerling rants about a “genocide against Germans”
As supposed evidence, he used a phrase on a poster that was used in many places in Berlin to advertise commemorative rallies on Saturday: According to this, the state would not protect migrant minorities, they would have to organize themselves in the neighborhoods against fascism and racist violence. Nerling showed the poster in Moabit, for example, and also filmed a rally on Leopoldplatz in Wedding.
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The right-wing extremist derived from the appeal a call for violence, which supposedly aimed at a “genocide against Germans” – against which they would now have to defend themselves. “We have to take action,” said Nerling, because you couldn’t rely on the police. “We have to do it alone.”
Praise for the NPD and a threatening prognosis
For his part, he avoided an open call for violence, but what he had in mind was a brief reference to the NPD. In the past, she had repeatedly had self-appointed vigilante groups patrolling, which Nerling now praised. Related to the concept are ideas of “nationally liberated zones”. In this sense, Nerling called for “resistance” in his video. His threatening prediction: “It will come to a bloody, unpleasant climax.”
Hanau’s mayor was horrified. “I’m angry and shocked that such trash is publicly available on the Internet. This right-wing agitator and his racist activities must be stopped immediately, ”said Kaminsky. He informed the families of the victims about the existence of the video. They need to know “that the video exists and that we are going to take action against it,” he said.
Nerling had taught at a primary school in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen until 2018. He was suspended from the Senate Education Administration after reports of his videos spreading conspiracy theories and inciting against Jews. A later dismissal had also existed before the labor court, Nerling finally withdrew an appeal against the judgment. Most recently, he appeared at the “hygiene demos” against the corona measures.
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