Germany’s Scholz calls for unity against far-right after MEP seriously hurt

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/4/germanys-scholz-calls-for-unity-against-far-right-after-mep-seriously-hurt

by Wagamaga

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  1. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for people to stand together against far-right activism after a politician was attacked while campaigning for the European parliamentary elections.

    Matthias Ecke was seriously injured and brought to hospital for treatment after four assailants attacked him as he was putting up campaign posters in the eastern German city of Dresden late on Friday evening, police said.

    The 41-year-old is a member of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and a current lawmaker in the European Parliament.

    “Democracy is threatened by something like this, and that is why shrugging our shoulders is never an option,” Scholz said on Saturday during a congress for the upcoming European elections in the German capital Berlin. “We must stand together against it.”

  3. Ah, another case of violence for the tolerant right.

    Almost like it has a history of that.

  4. The “politics of peace”. 

    They are no better than Al Qaida. 

  5. They said diversity was our strength

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    /s

  6. B-but muh immigrants!!1!1!1!

    It’s the fault of those lamestream parties!1!1!

    Ignore our connections to Russia and our fascistic tendencies!1!1!1

  8. Not sure how many examples are needed before people realize that the far-right is nothing but a bunch of violent thugs.

  9. Ah yeah beating up politicians. Thank god were defending our values against the goddamn immigrants or otherwise we would have to recognize the slow erosion of our democracies like in the 1920s again.

  10. How many attacks took place against AFD politicians from the left spectrum and they gave a shit about it?

    Violence is always shit and no solution, but this chancellor and his government is blind on the left eye. I hope they’ll not be our government ASAP.

  11. No information about the attackers and on top of that Afd politicians are the punching bag of Germany. Scholz is trying to bag some points accusing the party over him on the polls

  13. This is nothing new. Happens regularly in Germany. Attacks from both sides. Victims on both sides. Henriette Reker (SPD, knife attack),
    Paul Rzehaczek (NPD, hammer attack), Walter Lübke (CDU, shot dead).

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