Posted on 01/08/2019 11:09:40 PM PST by Olog-hai
Monday’s attack on Bremen’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader Frank Magnitz is not the first time the far-right populist party has been targeted in the northern German city. In the past, windows have been smashed and a car vandalized. Yet the brutal beating of Magnitz does mark a new level of violence in Bremen.
The 66-year-old Magnitz, who remains hospitalized, was reportedly set upon by masked assailants, who struck the parliamentarian in the head with an object. When Magnitz went to the ground, the attackers apparently continued beating him. Passersby ultimately came to his aid.
Bremen’s police and state security authorities suspect the attack was politically motivated and have established a special commission to find the culprits.
Magnitz himself has called the attack an attempt on his life. The AfD has shared a picture of him clearly showing a large gash on his head and significant bruising. Alice Weidel, who leads the AfD’s parliamentary group together with Alexander Gauland, said in a video shared on Facebook that she was “absolutely shocked by this despicable act” and that “the hatred against the AfD and the media coverage against this democratically elected party is bearing fruit.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...
Don’t know if the pic is posted at the source. I saw it on Twitter. The hole on the front of his head..It surprised me he could live through it. I thought it looked like a boot went through his skull. Horrific.
I was watching German news last night....wave after wave of opposition party members (CDU, SPD, Greens, Linke Party) saying this was uncalled for and not something they want to see.
Problem is...you’ve got various fringe groups now existing (Antifa, far-left, Nazi thugs, soccer hooligans, etc) that are just brewing for some 1930s brown-shirt type of revival. So much discontent among regular Germans...frustrated with fake politics, marginal solutions to fix problems...nothing on the horizon to resolve the mess. Goes a lot deeper than immigration or migration issues.
[I saw it on Twitter. The hole on the front of his head..It surprised me he could live through it.]
Sounds like the work of brownshirt liberals.
ANTIFA has sprung roots in Germany as well.
Merkel’s Marauders?
Soon to come here.
They’re already here and boned up by the press just like in Germany.
Soon? Who tried to assassinate Scalise?
Always islamists until demonstrated otherwise.
Talk is cheap. Germany and Sweden are toast.
And yet Germans will vote Merkel in again and let her import muslims who hate Germans.
JoMa
So, some Germans still like the Nazi approach for dissuading the opposition?
DW also published this - ”Doubt cast over details of attack on AfD lawmaker Magnitz” - saying it might have been a robbery and that CCTV doesn’t show a prolonged attack.
https://www.dw.com/en/doubt-cast-over-details-of-attack-on-afd-lawmaker-magnitz/a-47007064
“Soon to come here.”
Possibly! As in the states the elites/media (who toe the party line as they are funded by a media tax) paint honest dissent as being ‘far right wing’ or the ‘second coming of the Nazi’s”.
A number of months ago, one of the recent immigrants killed a German man (actually a migrant himself) and the folks were upset. Protests and marches ensued.
If you listened to the radio or TV or read the papers you were sure that Hitler and the SS were marching. Yet when you see the pictures on the news there are a bunch of folks (all ages), mostly conservatively dressed, walking and not saying much. Holding pictures of the dead man and lots of German flags. No fire bombs, no rocks, no masks, etc.
I believe the resentment is building in Germany just as it has in France and the US. What do the Chinese say? “May you live in interesting times.” I think we are!
That’s where Antifa started in the 1930s, as “Antifaschistische Aktion”.
Oh yeah, “prosecutors say”. DW, like the rest of the media over there, is not fond of AfD.
Steve Scalise has first-hand knowledge.
Antifa started in Germany prior to WW II and was supported by elements of both the East and West German governments after the war.
“Antifa has gained new prominence in the post-Obama era. They trace their roots back to Nazi Germany. Although they opposed the Sturmabteilung (SA), or Nazi storm troopers, like the SA they also used violence to intimidate political opponents and break up their meetings and rallies. It could be argued that the ideological distance between Antifa and the now-defunct National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated as NSDAP) or Nazi Party, is so slight it can be measured in millimeters.”
Source: https://capitalresearch.org/article/origins-of-antifa/
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