CDU top candidate Kai Wegner (R) and CDU leader Friedrich Merz (L) take a seat for a leadership meeting in Berlin on February 13, 2023, one day after the repeat Berlin state elections.
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As if Merz wasn’t in enough trouble for saying nothing, the capital’s mayor then went to play tennis when he said he was “locked in” his office.
A spokesman for Friedrich Merz has defended the chancellors’ silence following the left-wing extremist attack on Berlin’s power network, from which reports of vulnerable citizens dying in the dark and cold are increasingly emerging, saying that he cannot comment on everything at once.
But really, it is a matter of choice. Indeed, Merz has said much since the lights went out in his own country’s capital on Saturday about events over in Ukraine, including about a possible energy crisis there. “One can’t make this up,” said AfD co-leader Alice Weidel.
Das kann man sich nicht ausdenken: Während Zehntausende in Berlin frieren, warnt Merz vor einer Energiekrise in der Ukraine – und verliert kein Wort über den linksextremistischen Anschlag auf die Energieversorgung der Hauptstadt. https://t.co/nNmEx4UMwYpic.twitter.com/tdSY5a1cvE
Markus Frohnmaier, who represents the opposition party in the Bundestag, also questioned why, when “in Berlin, tens of thousands of Germans are now sitting in the dark and freezing … Merz is really worrying first about Ukraine at this moment?”
Merz is not the Chancellor of the Germans, but of Ukraine. Merz must go.
But the trouble the CDU chancellor is in is nothing compared to that of Berlin’s CDU mayor, Kai Wegner, which is saying a lot.
Shortly after the attack by the extremist ‘Volcano Group,’ which claimed it was taking ‘action’ against the rich because of the damage they are doing to the environment and due to their alleged incitement of hatred against migrants, Wegner said “I was at home all day because I had to make phone calls. I locked myself in my office.”
Cue a massive wave of outrage after it emerged that the mayor actually nipped out for a round of tennis just a few hours after tens of thousands of residents were left without electricity amid freezing winter conditions—“becuase I just wanted to clear my head.”
Nius editor Julian Reichelt joked that he chose “tennis instead of terror, serve instead of attack.”
Tennis statt Terror, Aufschlag statt Anschlag. Der Kai-Wegner-Lügenbeweis im Video! Sonntag: "Ich habe mich (Samstag) zuhause in meinem Büro eingeschlossen, im wahrsten Sinne, und koordiniert." Mittwoch: "Ja, ich habe (Samstag) von 13 bis 14 Uhr Tennis gespielt, weil ich einfach… pic.twitter.com/Udoad7jqHg
Left and right agree that “Berlin deserves better” than this.
And the lack of care being shown by these top establishment officials is especially concerning considering reports that leftist groups like the ‘Volcanos’ are working to unite with those similar to them across the country, ready to spread more chaos.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
