Hatred, agitation, death threats – politicians like Angela Merkel (CDU) and Karl Lauterbach (SPD) are currently experiencing more. The reason: You are participating in the corona measures, you are in favor of the Lockdown.
Threat of violence against politician Karl Lauterbach
“Such a madman has to be forcibly instructed“, there should be a Franz W. Facebook wrote about the Cologne member of the Bundestag Lauterbach after he warned of a third corona wave. “Shoot right away, that’s my opinion“, a Christian S. is said to have rushed.
Lauterbach himself contributed these and other comments over the weekend Twitter released. A “Hasswelle“wrote the politician,”its hard to take” be.
Initiative The Insider makes hate comments public
These hateful comments were collected and handed over to Lauterbach by the initiative Die Insider. It acts anonymously and, according to its own information, searches closed ones Facebook-Groups or forums of the AfD and AfD-related sites with sometimes thousands of members.
Again and again the initiative makes hate and agitation public, informs those affected and the public prosecutor’s office. Why? See “here a danger for our democracy and the (co) life in Germany“writes a member of the initiative to the WDR.
Markus Söder and Christian Drosten are also in focus
In the corona pandemic, apart from Merkel and Lauterbach, the focus of such hate would be Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) and the Berlin virologist Christian Drosten, so the member of Die Insider. Current hangers are often vaccination and the Lockdown. Often, racism and xenophobia also mix in.
“It’s extremely dangerous“says conflict researcher Andreas Zick from Bielefeld University about such forums with”excessive fantasies of violenceIn fact, it is no longer a matter of factual exchange of views – as was the case recently in the dispute between Karl Lauterbach and the trainer of FC Bavaria, Hansi Flick.
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