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After indications of an attack: AfD leader Alice Weidel cancels the rally

Alice Weidel and her family were taken from their private apartment to a safe location by security forces

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Alice Weidel actually wanted to speak at a rally in the Bavarian state election campaign. She canceled her appearance due to safety concerns.

AfD leader Alice Weidel canceled an appearance at her party’s rally shortly before the state elections in Bavaria for security reasons. “The weekend before last there was a security-related incident. Ms. Weidel and her family were taken from their private apartment to a safe place by security authorities because evidence had accumulated that pointed to an attack on her family,” said a spokesman for the politician on Tuesday at the request of the German Press Agency. As a precautionary measure, she refrained from making public appearances.

The AfD had invited Weidel as a keynote speaker to the Day of German Unity in Mödlareuth – a place that is located in both Bavaria and Thuringia and through which the inner-German border used to run. The date was supposed to be the highlight of the AfD election campaign in Bavaria.

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Weidel addressed her followers with a video message. “I would like nothing more than to be with you today, but unfortunately I can’t,” she said and called for the Bavarian state government under Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) to be given a lesson in the election next Sunday.

Numerous counter-demonstrators also came to the town to stand for democracy and cosmopolitanism and against right-wing extremism. The “Mödlareuth limitlessly colorful” campaign, among others, called for this. According to the Upper Franconia police headquarters, everything was quiet until the afternoon.

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Until reunification, the border between the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic ran through Mödlareuth. Today the story of division and unity is told in the German-German Museum; parts of the wall and the barrier are still preserved.