Protests held at about 100 locations over party’s meeting with neo-Nazis to discuss deporting those it deems have failed to integrate, including German citizens

More than 100,000 people turned out across Germany on Saturday in protest against the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, which sparked an outcry after it emerged that the party’s members discussed mass deportation plans at a meeting of extremists.

In Frankfurt, about 35,000 people joined a call under the banner “Defend democracy – Frankfurt against the AfD”, marching in the financial heart of Germany. A similar number, some carrying posters like “Nazis out”, turned up in the northern city of Hanover.

Protests were also held in cities including Braunschweig, Erfurt and Kassel and many smaller towns, mirroring mobilisation every day over the past week. In all, demonstrations have been called in about 100 locations across Germany from Friday through the weekend, including in Berlin on Sunday.

Politicians, churches and Bundesliga coaches have all urged people to stand up against the AfD.

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  • Nowhereman@lemmy.stonansh.orgEnglish
    7136·
    11 months ago

    Funny how it’s always undemocratic if it’s the right side of the spectrum. If people illegaly entered your country. You should be able to deport them, no?

    • crackajack@reddthat.comEnglish
      58·
      11 months ago

      If you read the article, the deportation plan touches on those who are already German citizens by essentially paying them to “remigrate”. Remigration is often a right wing dog whistle.

    • InternationalBastard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      551·
      11 months ago

      Bruh, they talk about even to deport Germans who oppose their politics. And as German we know that mass deportation is a dog whistle for killing .

      • DeadHorseX@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        11 months ago

        I think suggesting they’re proposing killing is a wild overstatement, but the prospect of mass deportations of German citizens – people born in Germany – is really disturbing.

        • InternationalBastard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          They talked about the ‘deportation’ 8km or 5miles away from Wannsee, where the OG Nazis planned the ‘deportation’ of Jews, communists, alcoholics and other minorities to Madagascar. And this was a dog whistle for Endlösung. So even if that’s the most horrifying outcome, it’s not a 'wild overstatement.

            • InternationalBastard@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              And I’m not saying that they could make their ideas reality, because the world is different. I talk about what they would LIKE to do and that their choices are symbolic.

      • Nowhereman@lemmy.stonansh.orgEnglish
        382·
        11 months ago

        No they didn’t. Also 431200 ordered to leave the EU in 2022 alone! The only way to do something about this is mass deportation.

        • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          333·
          11 months ago

          the only way to do something

          See that’s the fundamental difference here. People who aren’t racist pieces of shit don’t see this as a situation where something must be done. Because multiculturalism is a good thing.

        • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          11 months ago

          The only way to do something

          Never believe anyone in politics who says there’s only one way to do something. They’re trying to trick you from not seeing the very many other ways.

          As an engineer, rest assured, there is almost always another way to do something. I get paid to find them.

    • justaregularthrowaway@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      341·
      11 months ago

      it emerged AfD party members had attended meetings with neo-Nazis and other extremists to discuss the mass deportation of migrants, asylum seekers and German citizens of foreign origin deemed to have failed to integrate.

      Not just illegal immigrants, also everyone they don’t like. And in cahoots with self declared nazis.

    • yetAnotherUser@feddit.deEnglish
      24·
      11 months ago

      There are three target groups of migrants, he explains, who should be extradited from the country – or, as he puts it, “foreigners” who should undergo “reversed settlement”. They are: asylum seekers, non-Germans with residency rights, and “non-assimilated” German citizens. It is the latter that, in his view, would pose the biggest “challenge”.

      Silke Schröder, a property developer and board member of the right-leaning Verein Deutsche Sprache (German Language Association), wonders how re-migration would work in practice. Surely if a person has the “appropriate” passport it would be ” impossible”, wouldn’t it? For Sellner, this is just a detail. A “high level of pressure” will be exerted on people to adapt, he says, via “customised laws”. Re-migration won’t happen overnight; it is “a project that will take decades”.

      The masterplan even includes a destination to “move people to”, a so-called “model state” in North Africa, that would apparently provide space for up to two million people. There would even be educational and sport offers there. And anyone who lobbies on behalf of refugees could join them there, Sellner added.

      According to Sellner, the problem is “not just that foreigners live here. They also vote here.” “Ethnic voting” means that immigrants are likely to vote for “immigration-friendly” parties.

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