Faroe Wright Germans try to storm Rextag as opposition to coronavirus grows


“They shout‘ we are the people ’, but they are not,” Mr Quent said of the protesters who oppressed Rextag.

“In Germany, like many other European countries, we see that far-right parties are losing ground, that the government has growing confidence in the government.” “In the short term the epidemic cannot be exploited by far-right parties.”

That equation could change if the economy deteriorates further and unemployment rises, he said. Already, the AFD and more extreme far-right groups are trying to earn more of the dissent as they could be a much tougher political scene in a few months from now.

The immediate concern of officials and experts on extremism is that even if the opposition has the absolute right to be a minority, it is radical. Among those calling on supporters to join the protests on Saturday were AFD firebrand Bergen Hawkers, and Martin Seller, the star of the extremist Generation Identity movement, both classified as far-right extremists by the local intelligence service.

The message boards are flushed with far-right conspiracy theories and prep groups that have long imagined the depth of the crisis that would lead to the collapse of Germany’s liberal intent. Ahead of Saturday’s protests, which the city government tried to block before a court ruling, some public groups on the messaging application Telegram called “a storm on Berlin”.

Some posted photos of themselves and their weapons. “It’s very unusual for Germany,” Mr Quent said.

Officers are on high alert. In the last 14 months, on its front porch near the central city of Castle, far-right terrorists have assassinated a regional politician, attacked a synagogue in Hell in the east and killed 10 people in Hanau in February in the west. Even before the epidemic hit Germany, far-right extremism and far-right terrorism were officially identified as the biggest threats to the country’s democracy.