Pour (SEG). On more than a thousand pages, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV) has collected statements by members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and their apron organization young alternative (yes). As a result, the authority comes to the judgment that the party is secured right -wing extremist. This classification is currently on ice until legal clarification.
The report also refer to the city of Gießen three times. In two cases, it is about contributions to social media afterwards to the riots at the Eritrea Festival in 2023.
At the edge of this festival, alleged opponents of the Eritreig regime had thrown stones, bottles and smoke bombs on police officers. There were numerous tumults in the city center. According to the BFV, the JA Sachsen then wrote in a Facebook post that the “German Michel” was helplessly delivered to the “new cultures”. “#Gießen is only the beginning,” is at the end of the text.
As the authority explains, it is not constitutionally relevant to address problems that, for example, assume that they are unwilling to integrate. It becomes relevant if a “cultural foreignness” is increased to a “alienity” and a flat-rate incompatibility of immigrants with a “constructed, ethnically-cultural-defined German identity” is claimed.
Flat -rate judgments about immigrants
In connection with the festival, according to the BFV, the same group had also shared a picture that originally comes from a “Tim and Struppi” comic. In the picture, Tim runs away from black people with spears in his hand. The yes Saxony had the sentence “According to the map, I would have to be in Gießen” in a speech bubble. The BFV writes that the picture does not show white people as wild and primitive invaders who sell white people from their own homeland. By the way, new editions of the comic band, which originally dates from 1931, are repeatedly criticized because of the representation of black people.
In 2022, the then MEP of the AfD, Gunnar Beck, was apparently in Gießen. According to the BFV, he is said to have written in a Twitter contribution that in the “tranquil” city “everything is in Muslim-African hands. While the statement that there would be too high a proportion of foreigners that would be covered by freedom of expression, the border to xenophobia was exceeded in this article, explains the Federal Office of the Protection of the Constitution. With his statement with regard to the presence of migrants, Beck would draw the image of a “foreign rule” in order to ultimately stir up resentment against migrants from Africa among the population.
