After the attacks on the SPD politician Matthias Ecke and a Green Party campaign worker in Dresden, two alliances have announced this Sunday under the motto “Violence has no place in our democracy!” called for spontaneous demonstrations in Berlin and Dresden.
In Berlin, protests will take place in front of the Brandenburg Gate from 6 p.m., and in Dresden from 5 p.m. at Pohlandplatz, as stated in the Instagram posts published on Saturday evening by the Internet portal “Together Against the Right” and the alliance “We are the Firewall Dresden”. The alliances had already called for demonstrations against the right in February Corrective reported on a meeting of AfD politicians, members of the CDU and the “Union of Values” as well as entrepreneurs at which “remigration” was discussed.
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Unknown people attack MEP Matthias Ecke while hanging election posters in Dresden. Politicians are horrified, Chancellor Scholz is calling for united action against the right.
“The constitutional state must and will respond to this with tough action.”
Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser ( In view of the incidents, the SPD) has announced a special conference next week: The federal and state interior ministers should discuss protective measures as soon as possible.
She made a corresponding request to the current chairman of the Conference of Interior Ministers, Brandenburg’s department head Michael Stübgen (CDU). That’s what he reports Daily Mirror citing government sources. On Saturday, Faeser had already called for tough action by the rule of law and announced additional “protective measures for the democratic forces in our country”.
“The constitutional state must and will respond to this with tough action and further protective measures for the democratic forces in our country,” said Faeser, referring to the violent attacks on politicians.
The Greens in Saxony have already reacted to other attacks last weekend in Chemnitz and Zwickau and are no longer sending their members alone to post posters. Other parties now also have such considerations and guidelines.