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Members of the AfD parliamentary group are said to have smuggled the protesters into parliament on Wednesday, although Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble had ordered stricter security precautions. Everything suggests that some rioters reached the Bundestag through the AfD deputy, Udo Hemmelgarn.
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A YouTube broadcast from his office shows three people who have harassed members of the Bundestag. Hemmelgarn himself told the Tagesspiegel that he did not know the people. He could not say if the people were registered for a visit to the Bundestag through his office.
The Youtuber thanked the AfD MP employee in the video, who “took good care of him” today. He later explained that Hemmelgarn was “the gentleman who has one of the two self-charged.” Hemmelgarn has been accused repeatedly in the past of being close to the Reich Citizens Movement.
The Youtuber is a right-wing media activist from Dresden, the woman next to him is, according to the information, from the AfD team YouTuber Stefan Bauer. Thorsten Schulte, an AfD-affiliated ideological conspiracy journalist known as the “silver boy,” was there.
Right-wing activist Rebecca Sommer can also be seen in the video footage, accompanied by Schulte. He filmed and abused politicians in the corridors of the Bundestag.
Protesters harassed members of the Reichstag
Schulte had already announced on Tuesday via the short message channel Telegram that he would go to the Bundestag despite strict security requirements. In his post, he had also circulated the letter from the Bundestag administration on stricter access restrictions and declared that he would still work in the Bundestag on Wednesday for “freedom and self-determination against these drooling Merkel.”
Representatives of other political groups said the incident was gruesome. In reality, the visiting regulations are completely suspended for security reasons. Nor can it be that visitors without parliamentarians or their employees and without control are in the Bundestag and harass others.
This is prohibited due to crown requirements. Several MPs informed the Tagesspiegel that they were harassed by opponents of the anti-crown measures in the Reichstag. On Wednesday, the Bundestag dealt with the amendment to the Infection Protection Act. In front of the Bundestag there were sometimes violent disturbances during a demonstration. against anti-crown measures.
According to concurrent reports, several people have harassed MPs in front of the plenary hall, held a cell phone camera in front of their faces and insulted them for the anti-crown measures. FDP politician Konstantin Kuhle blames the AfD for ensuring that people could enter the building.
Parliamentarians lock themselves in offices to be safe
Kuhle wrote on Twitter: “I find these attempts to influence voting behavior absolutely unheard of.” The two people who harassed the deputies, a woman and a man, were wearing guest identification. Therefore, they should have been registered through a political group or a deputy.
Federal Economy Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) has also been insulted by at least two people, as can be seen in a video distributed on Twitter. Youtuber Schulte is also said to have been part of the campaign.
Right-wing media activist Sommer and a person in the background who could be Schulte insulted Altmaier: “He has taken off. He has no conscience at all.” And: “That’s an asshole. Bloated, little wannabe king.”
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Concerned that MPs could smuggle Corona’s radical skeptics into parliament, Bundestag President Schäuble on Tuesday ordered access controls to be tightened.
SPD Bundestag member Katja Mast wrote on Twitter that smugglers had also tried to break into individual members’ offices. “I’m stunned,” Mast wrote. Putting pressure on freely elected deputies is the last thing.
The leader of the green parliamentary group Anton Hofreiter has also been harassed. According to two employees of the parliamentary groups of the SPD and the Greens in the Bundestag, the parliamentarians locked themselves in their offices for fear of right-wing youtubers.
One of these employees, Christian Storch, wrote on Wednesday for the short message service Twitter: “We are there: people walk through the Bundestag who want to break into the offices of the representatives to put pressure on them personally. [und] To avoid voting ”. He also included himself.
FDP MP Johannes Vogel called for consequences on Twitter. It cannot be that a parliamentary group or parliamentarians give those people access to constitutional bodies, he wrote. This hampers democracy.
Parliamentarians can generally bring six people with them, without registration and without a Federal Police security check. Then you are responsible for the visitors and their behavior in the Bundestag. This regulation had been lifted for Wednesday by instruction of Schäuble.
Each visitor had to register at the entrance control on Wednesday and have security personnel verify the entries in the Inpol police database. Apparently, even these requirements could not prevent the protesters from being smuggled into the Reichstag building.
