AfD | Horde of agitators

AfD parliamentary group leader Hans-Christoph Berndt at the rally in Frankfurt (Oder) Photo: dpa/Sebastian Christoph Gollnow J.R.R Tolkien wrote large parts of his trilogy “The Lord of the Rings” in the middle of the Second World War. Set in a fantasy world, the trilogy can be read as a key novel in the fight against fascism. The orcs are ugly and cruel warriors, specially bred that way.

This should first be understood in order to understand a statement by Brandenburg's AfD parliamentary group leader Hans-Christoph Berndt, who has read the trilogy. In Frankfurt (Oder), ten young people of German, Polish, Russian and Syrian nationality hit and kicked a 14-year-old - including in the head, even when he was already lying on the ground. They filmed it and shared the video on the internet. At a protest demonstration, Berndt spoke of a “horde of orcs.”

The "nd" contains the speech manuscript, which, according to Berndt, does not entirely correspond to the spoken word, but shows what he was talking about. “Not all migrants are orcs,” says the manuscript. Anyone who respects Germany and its culture is welcome. But the perpetrators should be thrown out along with their parents and, if necessary, denaturalized. »Away with them! Remigration!”

Even if 13 to 15 year old perpetrators should not be treated like adults and everyone deserves a second chance, such brutality cannot be excused. Comparing children to orcs is wrong, but not the problem here. The speech as a whole leads to a climate in which “foreigners get out” and the Hitler salute is shown. This is said to have happened afterwards in Frankfurt (Oder).

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