Right-wing extremists provoke at the scene of the Würzburg knife attack and show three straw dolls there, smeared with fake blood and provided with photos of Baerbock, Laschet and Scholz. The police do not see this as a criminal offense.
At a meeting in Würzburg on Saturday afternoon, the right-wing extremist party “The Third Way” placed three straw dolls, apparently covered with blood-splattered cloths, on Barbarossaplatz and put portraits of Olaf Scholz, Annalena Baerbock and Armin Laschet. According to a report by the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation, the words “Beautifully colorful here” were written underneath. This staging met with outrage from many observers.
Almost three months earlier, a young migrant stabbed people who were obviously unknown to him in a department store on Barbarossaplatz and in downtown Würzburg. Three women died and five people were critically injured. Most recently, experts worked on a psychiatric report on the man who may have been guilty of his attack. Recently, it was not fully clarified whether the refugee’s religious convictions played a role in the act.
According to the police, around 20 right-wing extremists faced more than ten times as many counter-demonstrators on Saturday in Würzburg. In a message from the Lower Franconia Presidium on Saturday evening, the police said they were “overall satisfied with the course of the operation”. On Sunday the presidium announced on Twitter that the actions of the “third way” had been registered, had been checked on site by representatives of the legal department and the public prosecutor’s office and had “not constituted a criminal offense”.
Almost two weeks ago in Munich the police had issued election posters for the “Third Way” with the slogan “Hang the Greens!” suspended. According to the Greens, the District Court of Munich I has now prohibited the “Third Way” from using the slogan publicly by means of an injunction. In Saxony, too, such posters occupy the courts. There, the administrative court in Chemnitz had decided that the posters with the slogan “Hang the Greens” may remain in place despite an order to the contrary by the city of Zwickau. The municipality has lodged a complaint against this.