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Germany: a mobilization of rare magnitude against the far right
Monday January 22, Emmanuel Macron is traveling in Germany. Across the Rhine, nearly a million and a half people took to the streets this weekend to say “no” to the far right in a mobilization of rare scale. – (franceinfo)
Monday January 22, Emmanuel Macron is traveling in Germany. Across the Rhine, nearly a million and a half people took to the streets this weekend to say “no” to the far right in a mobilization of rare scale.
From Berlin to Munich, via Frankfurt or Bremen, everywhere, demonstrations of a rare scale took place in Germany on the weekend of January 20 and 21. In total, they brought together more than 1.4 and a half million people to say “no” to the far right. An entire people is in shock, sent back to the darkest hours of its history, since the investigative media Correctiv, relayed in France by Médiapart, revealed that last November, AfD extremists had gathered in a hotel near Potsdam to plan a mass expulsion of foreigners or people of foreign origin.
An “attack against democracy”
The Interior Minister compared the AfD’s plan to send up to two million people back to North Africa to the Wannsee Conference in 1942 where the Nazis planned the extermination of European Jews. The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, who himself demonstrated seven days ago, denounces a “attack on democracy.
