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Apparently they were invited by the AfD in the Reichstag building: the Council of Elders of the Bundestag is dealing with the “outrageous” behavior of some visitors yesterday. The FDP demands consequences for participating parliamentarians.
These are scenes that elected representatives in the Bundestag have never seen before: Right-wing media activists roam parliament with their smartphone cameras on. Harass, insult and insult the deputies. One of the women who was Minister of the Economy, Peter Altmaier, verbally. “Inflated little wannabe king. What an idiot,” says the activist filming the minister, captured on video.
This or something similar happened to several deputies yesterday during the Bundestag debate on the Infection Protection Act in the corridors of the Reichstag building. It is clear that some of the ideologues of the right-wing conspiracy came to parliament at the invitation of the offices of the AfD parliamentarians, including the woman who insulted the economy minister. Party politicians confirmed that ARD capital study.
“I’m not used to anything else from the AfD”
The leader of the union faction Ralph Brinkhaus said in Morning magazine since ARD and ZDF: if colleagues in the Bundestag were harassed, as happened in Altmaier, action had to be taken. “We are not used to anything else from the AfD,” Brinkhaus continued.
According to information from ARD capital studies Altmaier does not want to file a criminal complaint. However: Many parliamentarians call events in parliamentary halls monstrous, which actually represent a protected space.
“It was an attack on the heart of our democracy,” said Bundestag Vice President Claudia Roth at SWR. She has been sitting in the Green parliament for about 18 years and, by her own admission, she has never seen anything like it. The leader of the Left Party parliamentary group, Amira Mohamed Ali, warns that something like this should not be repeated: “I am very hopeful that this will have consequences for the AfD members, who simply smuggled people into the building of the Reichstag against the rules “.
Act of coercion?
Bundestag Vice President Petra Pau, also from the Left Party, said on Deutschlandfunk that if the MPs were harassed in their decision, it would be at least an administrative offense, if not a crime. The lawyer and deputy of the FDP Bundestag, Wolfgang Kubicki, sees the coercion fulfilled and calls for severe sanctions for the deputies involved. “I suppose the process will also be examined under criminal law,” said Kubicki’s party colleague Jürgen Martens, the FDP’s legal policy spokesman.
According to the spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group, Marcus Schmidt, the group wants to clarify who may have misbehaved and which guests were invited by individual MPs. MP Udo Hemmelgarn had confirmed that one of the guests, about whose behavior there were complaints, had been registered on him on Wednesday.
FDP politician Konstantin Kuhle was also one of those who met the guests invited by the AfD in the corridors of the Reichstag. Even if he had voted against the new Infection Protection Act: “If everyone who votes in favor has to worry about being harassed, pushed or threatened, then that is an attack on free democracy and that is not possible.”
AfD parliamentarians also welcomed visitors
However, the AfD members themselves were also persecuted by the visitors. According to his spokesman Daniel Tapp, several people who had not shown up entered the office of the leader of the parliamentary group Alice Weidel. Uninvited guests wanted to film through the window, he asked them out, Tapp said.
A video shows other visitors breaking into Parliamentary Managing Director Bernd Baumann’s office without registering, where an employee with the phrase “Do you have a tit?” receives.
In any case, all this will have consequences: which, exactly, also depends on the council of elders, which now deals with the issue and which is responsible for a smooth flow of work in the Bundestag. According to many, there was no question about this on Wednesday.
Not all AfD deputies distance themselves
The Union and the SPD have also requested a current time on disruptive actions in the Bundestag for Friday. SPD Parliamentary Manager Carsten Schneider said: “Smuggling crown deniers into the Reichstag, who are harassing MPs and employees, is a reminder of the darkest chapters in our history.”
The facts are currently being examined by the Bundestag police. According to the house rules, visiting groups have “access only if they are accompanied by a member of the German Bundestag or his representative or an employee of the Bundestag administration who is responsible for looking after the group.” House rules also stipulate that devices for recording, transmitting, transmitting or reproducing images and sound can only be used with the consent of the President of the Bundestag.
In regards to the AfD, voices can also be heard from within their ranks who find the behavior of guests invited by members of their party inexcusable. Others have no problem with their appearance.
With information from Kai Küstner, ARD capital studio
