Posted on 07/18/2024 5:25:20 PM PDT by lowbridge
Germany banned the right-wing Compact magazine on Tuesday, accusing it of being a "mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene" and inciting hatred of Jews and foreigners.
Stepping up the government's fight against what it says is a surge in far-right extremism in Germany, the interior ministry said Compact had been working against the constitutional order and ordered property searches in four states.
Compact magazine, widely seen as a mouthpiece of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's radical wing, has a circulation of 40,000 and a wide-reaching social media presence. The ban also applies to Compact's subsidiary, Conspect Film, and prohibits any continuation of previous activities.
Searches of the magazine's office as well as the homes of its top figures, management and leading shareholders in Brandenburg, Hesse, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt were aimed at seizing assets and other evidence, the ministry said.
"This magazine incites hatred against Jews, people with a history of migration and our parliamentary democracy in an unspeakable manner," Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said.
Faeser has described right-wing extremism as the greatest threat to German democracy as mainstream politicians struggle to respond to a rise in the popularity of the AfD before elections in eastern Germany this year.
Compact magazine's editor-in-chief, Juergen Elsaesser, said the ban was "dictatorial" and represented the worst attack on German press freedom in decades.
"You are treating us like a mafia, like a terrorist group. But we are a legal press organ with a clean criminal record," he told Reuters TV. "This makes it clear that the only aim is to destroy the opposition and us as the strongest media. We are already in contact with lawyers."
The AfD's co-leaders also condemned the ban.
Compact's website was no longer accessible in Germany but its accounts on social media platforms were still accessible.
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What about all the Islamist publications that have a much wider circulation and are just as anti-Semitic if not worse?
Get out of NATO.
How come they never seize Korans?
Compact magazine’s editor-in-chief, Juergen Elsaesser, said the ban was “dictatorial” and represented the worst attack on German press freedom in decades.
“You are treating us like a mafia, like a terrorist group. But we are a legal press organ with a clean criminal record,” he told Reuters TV. “This makes it clear that the only aim is to destroy the opposition and us as the strongest media. We are already in contact with lawyers.”
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He’s right… actions such as this are meant to DESTROY ALL OPPOSITION TO GERMANY’S AND THE EU’S RULING GLOBALIST ELITE. The EU is rapidly completing it’s journey to being Western Europe’s FASCIST OVERLORDS.
Sounds like Europe now has the solution to FIGHT FASCISM - which is to shut down anyone or anything that is against the (suicidal) European mission to ‘destroy’ Russia.
“The only way to make a bad idea seem like a good idea is to silence the good idea that shows just how bad the bad idea really is” applies. L.Star
ANYONE who opposes the commie German government is silenced with the “RIGHT WING” slander and arrested and shut down. Merkel did more damage to Germany than two world wars.
The German Governments action in this are Fascistic.
Germany is what happens when the Nazi’s and Islamist’s combine.
It turns into a total shithole. Very sad.
And yet these are the “democracies” Biden wants us to waste our blood and our treasure to defend!
F**k NATO.
Let the Europeans defend themselves. They have recovered from the rubble of WW2, they’re rich and the Soviet Union is no more.
We cannot continue spend ourselves into debt so the socialist can brag about their “free” healthcare and welfare state.
That’s good thing, but Europe is fascist. Naybe not as extreme as Nazi Germany, for now, but what defines fascism defines Europe.
They really got Germany over a barrel, don’t they?
Germany is STILL paying reparations to you-know-who.
What does “right wing” means in articles written by europeans? It does not seem to mean “Nazi.”
Article 5 section 1 of the German Grundgesetz:
...Eine Zensur findet nicht statt. (There shall be no censorship.)
Well, so much for that. Again.
“Germany banned the right-wing Compact magazine on Tuesday, accusing it of being a “mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene” and inciting hatred of Jews and foreigners. “
That may be, but I am not going to take Germany’s word for it. Anyone know what this magazine actually says?
That would certainly help us determine if the publishers are actually dangerous or just being slandered.
Good. They won’t need magazines or armed citizens when the Russians roll in...
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser
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