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| Germany: Police, protesters clash near AfD state conference | |
| 2023-03-07 | |
Protesters and police clashed outside the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) Baden-Wurttemberg state party congress in Offenburg in the southwest of Germany. Various protests against the event had been organized for the weekend. Police said three coppers and two participants were maimed with three people requiring a visit to the hospital, including one police officer, following festivities between demonstrators. Twenty officers sustained light injuries connected to smoke inhalation as protesters set items on fire in one demonstration, Offenburg police said, but they were able to remain on duty. WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE FESTIVITIES? During the demonstration, one individual sprayed a fire extinguisher at police. German news agency DPA reported that police used their batons to halt a protest march while at the same time, police used loudspeakers to call on demonstrators to keep the peace. Offenburg police said the march was forcibly halted. Police took down the details of more than 100 individuals and intend on investigating whether there is any possibility of criminal charges being brought against any protesters involved in the festivities. Earlier in the day, demonstrations took place without incident at the main scheduled protest in the city center outside the Offenburg exhibition center, where the AfD conference was being held. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 (From FP) 10 years after the AfD’s founding..., The AfD has become both more successful and more radicalized in recent years. It has capitalized on a mix of anti-refugee sentiment, coronavirus skepticism, and economic insecurity to become the strongest party in two of five eastern German states and win double-digit support nationally. And it’s in places like Bautzen, this AfD stronghold of around 40,000 people in eastern Saxony, that the national parties’ commitment to isolating the AfD is breaking down. |
| Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 2023-03-07 10:54 |