Green press spokeswoman: quote “fictitious”
When asked by the #Faktenfuchs, Nicola Kabel, press spokeswoman for the Greens, wrote: “The quote is simply fictitious, Annalena Baerbock did not say that.” Also fact checks from Mimikama, Correctiv and AFP show that the quote attributed to Baerbock was invented and cannot be substantiated.
False reports and fake news like this Sharepic also often contain formal errors such as spelling errors. This is also the case in this post – a missing “h” for “carbon dioxide”, a missing comma and at the end one point too many. In the Sharepic it is also stated following the fictional quote that Baerbock is 39 years old. Baerbock is 40 years old since December 2020.
Pets not a campaign issue for the Greens
Climate and the environment are key issues for the Greens, pets are not. in the Draft election program of the Greens for the upcoming federal elections this autumn there is no indication that the Greens are calling for an end to domestic animal husbandry. The word “pet” does not appear once. There is also no mention of dogs, horses or cats.
At the beginning of March 2021, the Bremen Greens in a position paper a kind of pet driver’s license – but the Greens also want this idea not to be addressed at the federal level.
The strategy of trying to discredit public persons or groups of people with false quotations about an alleged pet ban is not new. It is said again and again that pets should be banned or abolished – especially dogs. In the past, for example, the false assertion that Muslims wanted to ban dogs, how Mimikama fact checks demonstrate.
Conclusion
There is no evidence that Annalena Baerbock actually said the quote attributed to her about an alleged ban on pets. According to the press spokeswoman for the Greens, the quote is “fictitious”, Baerbock never said that. There is also no evidence for this statement on the Internet or in archives.
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