Three straw dolls with blood-smeared shrouds, behind them the pictures of the Chancellor candidates and a poster with the signature “Nice and colorful here”: This staging of the right-wing extremist splinter party “Der III. Weg” last Saturday in Würzburg had sparked a heated debate.
Investigations by the public prosecutor against applicants
After several complaints were received by the Würzburg public prosecutor on Monday, they launched a formal investigation on Tuesday against the person who reported the rally. This is what the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and the Würzburg “Main-Post” report. A request from the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation to the authority initially went unanswered.
The public prosecutor’s office announced on Monday that it would re-examine the matter. “The offense of incitement to hatred and public incitement to criminal offenses come into consideration in particular,” said the authority’s response.
On Saturday, the right-wing extremists were able to continue the action unhindered. On Sunday, the police and the public prosecutor justified their failure to intervene with a missing offense. There was heated discussion about it, especially on social media such as Twitter.
Playing with ambiguities
It was not the first time that the extreme right-wing splinter party had attempted with its action to outsmart the rule of law with ambiguities. She had stated that the three bloody bodies at the scene of the knife attack symbolized the three women killed by a Somali at the end of June.
Many observers, including Florian Ritter (SPD), member of the Bavarian state parliament, stated that the “unbiased viewer” must get the impression that three politicians were being executed as traitors.
Controversy over election posters
Most recently, the party “Der III. Weg” had already issued election posters with the inscription “Hang the Greens!” attracted attention. Underneath, the addition “Make our national revolutionary movement known in town and country through poster advertising in our party colors was found much smaller.” The District Court of Munich I has already banned the party from hanging election posters with this slogan. The wording “to hang” someone is generally understood to mean hanging someone up, killing someone in any other way or physically injuring them, according to the decision.
According to information from the MDR, the Saxon Higher Administrative Court has also decided that the posters must be taken down in Zwickau. The poster fulfills the objective facts of incitement to hatred, so the reasoning.