

Antifa Attack on AfD Conference Leaves 53 Police Officers Injured
Most of those injured were police who were attacked with pyrotechnics and sprayed with fire extinguishers. The altercations come amid record polling for the AfD.
Most of those injured were police who were attacked with pyrotechnics and sprayed with fire extinguishers. The altercations come amid record polling for the AfD.
Prominent politicians, media figures, and everyday working people from Germany’s political Right and Left attended the protest.
During the debate, members of AfD and Die Linke called into question the federal government’s silence on the attack, with one of the lawmakers suggesting that the ruling coalition is completely subservient to the United States.
Controversy surrounding the EPP’s leader may only be a sign of conflicting ideas concerning the future direction of the EU Parliament’s biggest political group.
According to AfD foreign policy spokesman Petr Bystron, organizers of the conference “are not concerned with dialogue and the exchange of opinions. In times of war, voices of peace are shut out.”
“We are the strongest peace party. It’s not a coincidence that one day after our unveiling of the peace initiative we jumped over the Greens, who are the number one war party. This shows what the people in Germany really want,” AfD MP Petr Bystron told The European Conservative.
Echoing a line of thought repeatedly made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán over the past year, the AfD lawmaker asserted that this armed conflict does have a winner—and that winner is the United States.
AfD MP Martin Sichert said that the Bundestag’s recognition of the genocide was long overdue, and called for the “nice words” to be followed by concrete actions.
Presently, the AfD is now the strongest political force in East Germany.
He urged lawmakers to seriously consider why New Year’s Eve ‘celebrations’ have become increasingly violent over the years, in the same places with the same participants.