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The Difference Between Germany and Hungary

New record high for libel against German AfD politicians

Published: January 16, 2025, 4:05 pm

    Apparently there are a particularly large number of reports that concern the AfD leader: Alice Weidel has set a record for being the target of politically motivated libel in December 2024. However, some media portray this very differently.

    Never before have politicians been so extensively insulted in a month as in December 2024. This is reported by the German daily Rheinische Post (RP) citing current figures from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). This regrettable phenomenon is notable since the selection of examples from the RP is quite biased.

    Chancellor Olaf Scholz was called by someone on the Internet a “corrupt scumbag” who should be “driven through the city with clubs”. The 70-year-old was therefore sentenced to a fine of 1,650 euros. A 28-year-old who called Annalena Baerbock a “terrorist” was sentenced to a fine of 600 euros.

    And anyone who calls Robert Habeck an “idiot” will have their house searched. Renate Künast (Greens) and Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) are celebrated as shining examples of democratic resilience despite them offering the worst obscenities, surpassed only by Marco Wanderwitz (CDU), whom the paper quoted as saying: “There used to be insults, but now you feel like a politician is fair game.”

    “There is simply a climate of anger and agitation,” complained Wanderwitz. It has become particularly bad since the AfD entered the scene.

    In the daily’s reporting is not mentioned to which party the political actors belong who were insulted more often than anyone else in December 2024, because it happens to be the AfD. Alice Weidel was the target of insults more often than others. The Tagesspiegel noted: “The BKA has never counted as many insults against politicians as last December. Apparently there are a lot of reports that focus on the AfD leader.”

    “We must finally understand that insults against politicians are about democracy,” the Rheinische Post quoted Wanderwitz, the protagonist of the AfD ban. He probably did not mean insults against Alice Weidel.

    Climate of impunity

    Against this sad background, Antifa is once again making no secret of what kind of people they are and is resorting to blatant threats of terror. This was not only shown by the brutal orgies of violence surrounding the AfD federal party conference in Riesa – Antifa rioters also want to attack AfD members individually.

    The private addresses of numerous AfD members have now been published on the “antifastreetmaps” website.

    The majority of the published addresses are in Saxony. But party members from Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin are also affected. Local politicians from the AfD are particularly in the sights of the Antifa perpetrators. Often, not only the place of residence, but also other information, such as the place of work, is made public.

    On “antifastreetmaps” the action is justified with supposed “right-wing violence” that must be fought back. Therefore, AfD members must now also be attacked in their private environment: “For some time now, a normalization of fascist language and ideology has been taking place throughout society, for which the AfD is largely responsible,” the Antifa portal declared. “Right-wingers are making themselves comfortable in local pubs, rural regions and increasingly in parliaments. We want to take away this apparent naivety and security from them!”

    Left-wing extremist terror in Hungary

    German news outlets Neues Deutschland (ND), and the taz, the organs of the backward left, have meanwhile complained bitterly because one of their members is on trial in Budapest, due to start in February.

    The accused is Maja T. (24), an allegedly “non-binary” person who was still called Simeon T. at the time of the crimes in February 2023 and only converted to the true faith/gender in a Dresden prison cell. In a covert operation, he/she/it was transferred from Dresden to Budapest by the federal police, which led to a collective nervous breakdown among the left-wing supporters.

    The public prosecutor is demanding 14 years in prison if he confesses and waives a trial. If this is refused, a trial could end in a maximum sentence of 24 years behind bars.

    The Hungarian police-affiliated portal Ugyeszsegröl reported on the matter:

    According to the indictment, in 2017 a German man and his partner founded an organization in Leipzig that sympathized with a left-wing extremist ideology, whose perpetrators, including the German and Italian citizens involved in the latest indictment, were members.

    The members of the organization agreed that the right-wing extremist sympathizers should be fought with violence. Accordingly, they agreed to carry out organized attacks against unsuspecting victims whom they had selected, identified as right-wing extremist sympathizers, or identified as right-wing extremist sympathizers. Their aim was that the intentionally serious, even life-threatening injuries and the circumstances of the unexpected attack should have a deterrent message for the representatives of right-wing extremist movements. […]

    Between 9 and 11 February 2023, five attacks occurred in Budapest, injuring nine people. The first attack occurred at Nyugati station on a train, the second at Fovám tér, the third and fourth attacks on 10 February at Gazdagréti tér and Bank utca, and the fifth on 11 February at Mikó utca in the 1st district. Among the victims were Hungarian and foreign citizens. Six of them suffered serious injuries, three suffered minor injuries, but several had the potential to cause life-threatening injuries.

    The terrorist organization mentioned is the notorious Hammer Gang, whose leader, Lina Engel (28) from Leipzig, was sentenced to five years and three months in prison a year and a half ago by the judge Hans Schlüter-Staats (61), who presumably obviously sympathized with her, but released her home the same day and attested to her “hero status”. Her former accomplice and fiancé, Johann Guntermann, was recently caught, is in custody and presumably awaits the same “fate”.

    Their Italian accomplice, Ilaria Salis (40), was initially in custody in Budapest, but was then placed under house arrest with conditions after left-wing politicians complained about Salis appearing in chains in court. She now represents the left-wing faction in the European Parliament and enjoys parliamentary immunity. The application to lift her immunity has already been submitted by a Hungarian court.

    These agitators came to Budapest specifically to carry out attacks on supposedly “right-wing” participants in the event on the commemoration of the so-called “Day of Honour”, on which the defenders of Budapest failed to escape from the capital under siege by the Red Army on February 11, 1945.

    The perpetrators from Germany and Italy should have known that Hungary was not a good place for left-wing extremist bandits. In Hungary, left-wing extremists have to face justice. Their friends will probably have to give the country a wide berth in the future, as some of them are still wanted there.

    Violent demonstrations and sieges of party conferences, such as those in Riesa last weekend, are completely unthinkable in Hungary.

    Anyone can organize events anywhere in Hungary, demonstrate for or against whatever, without exposing themselves to physical danger.

    Even a lecture by the controversial Austrian political publicist Martin Sellner in September 2024 was able to take place without a single police officer on site and without disruption in front of an interested audience.

    For Sellner, this is no longer possible in Germany, Austria or Switzerland.

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