Imagine going to the bakery, greeting the baker’s wife, expecting a “What would you like?” and then she bends over the sales counter and you hear this: “WOOOOW WOOOOW!!! FINALLY : Trend barometer reports : The Greens are only in 4th place !!! AFD ahead of these looosers in 3rd place! GERMANY IS FINALLY STARTING TO WAKE UP!”
That would be kind of, well, irritating. inappropriate. Maybe even a reason to object. You might ask why people are happy that a partly right-wing extremist party is gaining support. And then don’t go to this bakery anymore. Hopefully at least. Assuming all that would happen to you at the bakery.
But – surprise – it didn’t happen at the bakery, but in a place where it doesn’t seem to matter at all how many exclamation marks one uses to celebrate the AfD’s victory or wish asylum seekers death. That’s right, the internet. In this case, the Facebook page of a beach bar on Lake Guggenberger in the district of Regensburg. Anyone who wanted to find out when the “Cantina” was open again or what else you would like to know when you go to the side of a bar was informed by the operator about various topics without being asked, such as “criminal asylum seekers”.
The operator of a beach bar lets out “criminal asylum seekers” on his bar’s official website.
(Photo: Regensburg Digital)
“THIS SOX THIS WILL STAY WITH US UNTIL THEY DEAD (HOPEFULLY TOMORROW ; ODA PREFERABLELY TODAY NIGHT)”, you could read there. I’m sure many read it too, the bar is quite popular, most people only know the operator as “den Raina”. The fact that “Raina” expresses death wishes and tends more than slightly to the right didn’t seem to bother her. First of all, not the club, which has been leasing the bar to him for years and which is alternately headed by the mayor of Regensburg and the district administrator.
So it really didn’t bother anyone. In the event that it did, the articulate bar operator had written a few more lines. If his posts could bother someone, he wouldn’t care… – wait, enough of the brutalization of the Internet – he doesn’t really care, because: “I’m i, da Raina.”
The internet is the internet, and that kind of thing is normal there. Or suspected of being a criminal offence. Like the police Regensburg Digital confirmed, she is investigating against the “Cantina” landlord, who did not want to comment when asked by the SZ, on suspicion of insult and hate speech. This did not happen because one of the guests complained or even the association run by the city and state, which only distanced itself when asked by the press. It was Antifa Neutraubling who drew attention to the posts. And you can only say to her: “THANK YOU!!!”