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Gauland and Weidel lament “unacceptable behavior” of rioters in the Bundestag
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Who left Corona’s opponents in the Bundestag?
Hundreds of arrests were made during protests by opponents of Corona in Berlin. Right-wing activists came to the Bundestag and harassed politicians there. Now the council of elders is dealing with the suspicion that the AfD has let rioters into the building.
Several members of the Bundestag, including Peter Altmaier, were harassed by right-wing rioters on Wednesday. Now, a security report reveals which three AfD MPs had given the provocateurs access.
northAfter rioting by several people in the Bundestag on Wednesday, the Union parliamentary group calls for a “visit ban” for the AfD MPs allegedly involved. “Anyone who infiltrates people who should not ‘visit’ but agitate into the Bundestag must feel grave consequences,” said Mathias Middelberg (CDU), internal policy spokesman for the Union Bundestag faction of the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”.
Criminal offenses and administrative offenses must be controlled. “In any case, the deputies concerned should be prohibited from receiving visitors to the Bundestag until the end of the electoral period,” Middelberg said.
Rioters in the Bundestag during the debate on the Infection Protection Law on Wednesday were invited by three AfD members of the Bundestag, according to authorities. According to a security report, they were together with Udo Hemmelgarn, who has already committed to this, the parliamentarians Petr Bystron and Hansjörg Müller.
In all, four visitors came to the Bundestag building as guests at her invitation, some of whom also broke into the offices. Despite the protests of the workers, they filmed the demonstration in front of the building and broadcast it live. Since all visitors to the Bundestag had to register with their surname, first name and date of birth on this day, they can be clearly assigned to the deputies who invited them.
The AfD partially confirmed the report. MP Petr Bystron invited activist Rebecca Sommer, at the invitation of MP Udo Hemmelgarn Thorsten Schulte was there, parliamentary group spokesman Marcus Schmidt said on request on Thursday. The visitors were registered with the Bundestag “quite regularly”.
The chairmen of the AfD parliamentary group Alice Weidel and Alexander Gauland lamented “the unacceptable behavior”. At no time did the AfD parliamentary group “invite guests to the Bundestag with the aim of disrupting parliamentary processes or preventing parliamentarians from exercising their mandate.”
On the sidelines of the debate, members of parliament were harassed, filmed and insulted in the corridors of the Reichstag building. This happened among others, the Minister of Economic Affairs Peter Altmaier (CDU) and the internal politician of the FDP Konstantin Kuhle.
Outrage on all factions
“If it turns out that AfD MPs have given access to the Reichstag to people who have specifically put pressure on MPs or prevented them from fulfilling their mandate obligations, then that must have consequences,” said the First Parliamentary Managing Director of the Parliamentary group FDP. Marco Buschmann, the German Press Agency. “That would be very little parliamentary. We will investigate the matter in any case in the council of elders. “
The first parliamentary managing director of the AfD’s Bundestag faction, Bernd Baumann, said on Wednesday night that his faction had no knowledge that AfD members had smuggled unauthorized persons into the Bundestag. “If guests who are regularly searched by individual members and who have been checked by the Bundestag have violated the house rules, we will investigate these allegations.”
According to a report by the publishing network Germany, an AfD member confirmed that a woman from his list was invited to the meeting. It is said that it was the woman who pressured Economy Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) with questions, filmed him and insulted him. This can be seen in a YouTube video. Other activists also came to the Bundestag at the invitation of the AfD. This is also consistent with the ARD capital study research.
“It’s monstrous! We will defend our democracy and our parliament against the enemies of democracy, ”wrote Britta Haßelmann, the first Parliamentary Director of the Greens, on Twitter. The incidents would have to be “processed immediately in the parliamentary organs”.
“Pressuring the deputies and hindering the free exercise of their mandate, undermines the foundations of our democracy,” said the first parliamentary manager of the Union faction, Michael Grosse-Brömer (CDU), of the portal “ThePioneer” (Thursday). He also demanded extensive clarification from the council of elders.
SPD Secretary General Lars Klingbeil called the AfD’s behavior “absolutely undemocratic and unworthy.” This has “always in mind the stated goal of destabilizing our democratic system,” he told “Spiegel.”
