In Dresden on Sunday, hundreds took to the streets against right-wing extremism and for democracy. In the afternoon they marched through the old town with posters and banners such as “Colorful against Brown”, “Vote out nationalism” and “Nazis out of parliaments”. According to the police, around 950 people took part in the demonstration. There were no disruptions. The climate protection group Fridays for Future (FfF) put the number of participants at “around 2,000”.
Several alliances have called for a demonstration
Several alliances took part in the “Defend Democracy!” demonstration. called, including left-wing and green youth, Jusos and the student council of the TU Dresden. “Even if the AfD acts as if it were a democratic party, its goal is to abolish our democracy,” said an FfF statement, with reference to current research by the research network Correctiv.
Details of the Correctiv research
Accordingly, individual AfD officials and CDU members of the ultra-conservative Values Union took part in a meeting in a Potsdam villa in November. The former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, confirmed that he spoke about “remigration” at the meeting. When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country – even under duress. According to Correctiv research, Sellner named three target groups in Potsdam: asylum seekers, foreigners with the right to remain – and “non-assimilated citizens.”
2024-01-15 07:33:59
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