The hashtags #wirsindviele and # VolleSolidarität are trending on German-speaking Twitter this Saturday. Numerous users express their support with the SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach, who made public that his car was so heavily smeared with paint that he cannot use the Smart. The virologist Lauterbach also shares the tweet from the Green politician Ricarda Lang. With her, the door sign of her private apartment was painted over with red paint.
The slogan #wirsindviele has stood for a position against the extreme right in Germany for years – and was used during protests to accept refugees. It is now also used by those who advocate tougher measures in the fight against Covid-19. In the Bundestag, the AfD, the FDP and the LINKE do not want to vote for the tougher infection protection law planned by the government.
Lauterbach repeatedly speaks out in the Bundestag and in the media for a tough lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic. On this Saturday, the Robert Koch Institute recorded 23,804 new infections within 24 hours in Germany and 219 further deaths.
Like her party, the deputy chairwoman and spokeswoman for women’s affairs for the Greens also advocates the emergency brake in the corona crisis.
Many Twitter users support Lauterbach and Lang.
The LINKE politician Thomas Bartsch also expresses solidarity. His party wants to vote against the planned amendment to the Infection Protection Act in the Bundestag.
For several years now, local politicians have also been increasingly the target of physical attacks in Germany. In June 2019, the district president of Kassel Walter Lübcke was shot at close range on the terrace of his house. A right-wing extremist man from Hesse was sentenced to life imprisonment in January 2021 for the murder of Lübcke, who had spoken out in favor of accepting refugees.
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