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German "far-right" politician brutally beaten in 'assassination attempt,' party says
Fox News ^ | January 7, 2019 | Samuel Chamberlain

Posted on 01/08/2019 6:14:33 AM PST by littleharbour

A member of Germany's parliament from the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) suffered serious injuries after he was attacked by three people in the northern city of Bremen Monday in what the party described as an "assassination attempt."

According to a statement on the AfD Bremen Facebook page, Frank Magnitz was knocked unconscious as he left a New Year's reception at a theater in the city. The party said the attackers continued to beat Magnitz on the head after he was down.

The statement credited "the courageous intervention of a builder" with saving Magnitz's life. AfD said police and the Bremen prosecutor's office were investigating the attack.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: afd; germany
The quotation marks are mine. Fox continues to play along with the "far right" slurs of the leftist media, and downplays what should be seen as a shocking incident against the leader of this party - not just a regular member. The attacks on Republican politicians are always downplayed by the media, who amplify the slightest verbal condemnation of the Democrats.
1 posted on 01/08/2019 6:14:33 AM PST by littleharbour
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To: littleharbour

Hubbard described reporters as ‘chaos merchants’.


2 posted on 01/08/2019 6:17:46 AM PST by null and void (If they don't respect our borders, why would you expect them to respect our National Parks, or us?)
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To: littleharbour

Daily Mail has the gory details that Fox was too squeamish to publish. 10 to 1 odds that the masked attackers were “migrants”.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6568129/Chairman-Germanys-AfD-party-beaten-nearly-death-politically-motivated-attack.html


3 posted on 01/08/2019 6:18:15 AM PST by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: littleharbour

Most of the regional (Bremen) reporting has the cops saying that it was an attempted robbery. The problem with this story is that after they got him on the ground, they (the three) went to kicking him. This was witnessed by a construction guy who came upon the attack, and chased them off. It doesn’t fit the profile of a typical robbery in Germany.


4 posted on 01/08/2019 6:18:36 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: littleharbour

So I guess Democrats aren’t the only violent scum in the world.


5 posted on 01/08/2019 6:19:02 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: littleharbour

Nothing has changed in Germany since the 1920s and 30s except that the commies are in charge and brutalizing the fascists.


6 posted on 01/08/2019 6:29:22 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: littleharbour

Antifa. The red SA. Bremen, a hard left city state, has been coddling these types for decades.


7 posted on 01/08/2019 6:35:25 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: pepsionice

But it does fit Seth Rich’s “robbery”...


8 posted on 01/08/2019 6:35:31 AM PST by null and void (If they don't respect our borders, why would you expect them to respect our National Parks, or us?)
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To: littleharbour

I was doing some research on this yesterday, it’s a pattern and it’s probably not migrants.....if you google AFD attacks, you will see a number of party offices around Germany have been ransacked and in one case bombed...it happens when the mainstream parties are labeling the AFD and the Nazi Party of 2019....The attacks are coming from the left and communists in Germany, much like the 20’s and 30’s......I have a friend who lives in Germany and he maintains that areas in Bavaria and what use to be East Germany are shining up their hobnailed boots and getting ready to fight....Germany and France and looking at a low level Civil War that could ignite into something much worse...


9 posted on 01/08/2019 6:37:58 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: littleharbour

I heard it was pantifa.


10 posted on 01/08/2019 6:40:32 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Unredact the 99 page Collyer Report!!!)
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To: littleharbour

11 posted on 01/08/2019 6:44:46 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: littleharbour

The report from yesterday contained a mention of ‘probably’ antifa:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3718090/posts

“German #AfD-politician Frank Magnitz (member of the German parliament) was badly injured in the German town #Bremen in #Germany, probably by three persons of the Antifa.”

Know doubt we’ll get ALL the facts before it’s over. Or not. But, why would they say “three persons of the antifa”?


12 posted on 01/08/2019 6:55:52 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: srmanuel

Bavaria and what use to be East Germany are shining up their hobnailed boots and getting ready to fight............................... Fight who? The Rot Front in Hamburg? There are no Brown Battalions in Germany any more, those days are long gone. The Germans of today are docile and sick of bombs dropping into their bedrooms. They are more concerned about their bier pretzels and wurst. They are letting the immigrants in to take over and turn their country into Utopia. If they ignore what is happening, what was Deutschland Erwacht in the 30’s has become more like Deutschland Kaput. IMO,Nationalism exists, but very few want the grand ole Nazis back. (I think the people are tired of rebuilding their cities over and over due to bad political choices.)


13 posted on 01/08/2019 7:13:44 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (What is earned is treasured, what is free is worth what you paid for it.)
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To: littleharbour

Real Nazis calling opposition Nazis. Same as here.


14 posted on 01/08/2019 7:53:11 AM PST by School of Rational Thought
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To: HighSierra5

except that anybody who’s not a communist or is anti-communist regardless of their political views is considered fascist in the eyes of these left-wing reds so if they’re going to give you the label you might as well wear it proudly.


15 posted on 01/08/2019 9:09:40 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: littleharbour

Why haven’t I ever seen any toads in the “media” refer to “the far LEFT”? It’s always only “da far right.”


16 posted on 01/08/2019 9:21:03 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: rktman

Liberal bullies attack a man on behalf of foreign invaders. Treason.


17 posted on 01/08/2019 9:29:08 AM PST by tbw2
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