![]() ![]() We don't want to use the German law, which is the way I was quoted.ĬO: But police should shoot if they have to.īvS: No. And I made very clear then that we don't want to shoot. The use of weapons against them can therefore be permitted within a narrow legal framework." Are you denying that that's something you said?īvS: I'm denying that we want to shoot at anybody - that this is what we want. And actually Merkel is the only one who's responsible for deaths shooting at the border.ĬO: But you have said "the use of firearms against children is not permitted. What we can see in all the other European countries who have closed down the borders - they have got the political will, and so they do not need any weapons. Erdogan (President of Turkey) - who is, in the name of Germany, protecting the European borders. What we realize is that there's in Europe - or close to Europe - only one head of state who's shooting at refugees and killing refugees. Have you modified that position at all?īvS: We made very clear that we don't want to shoot at anybody. Even in 2013 we were calling on a migration law to have regulated migration into Europe and Germany.ĬO: You might understand why people would focus on that, giving that you have said in the past that it's OK for police to shoot refugees at border crossings. It's just that the media, of course, is always picking up on those issues which are talked about most. We had that from the very beginning in our program. Why did you make that shift?īvS: We did not make a shift. There has been a shift toward the policy about refugees, and about Islam. REUTERS/Joachim Herrmann - RTX2O37K (Joachim Herrmann/Reuters)ĬO: When your party was launched in 2013, you were more focused on the Eurozone and the economy. We are in favour of religious freedom of course, but Islam is claiming political power, and this is what we deny," she told BBC Hardtalk in October.People react to first exit polls during the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election at the anti-immigrant Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) post election venue in Schwerin, Germany, September 4, 2016. She has been equally vocal about eradicating Islam from Germany. The question was put forth to her on Facebook and while she answered "yes", she later claimed that her computer mouse had slipped. In June, she voiced support for using firearms against women and children who were trying to cross the German border. By 2014, she was a Member of European Parliament representing AfD and has been vocal about the party's anti-immigrant stance. Having started off her career as a banker, von Storch went on to become a lawyer before entering politics. Holding the formal title of Duchess of Oldenburg, the 46-year-old's lineage can be traced back to the royal houses of Denmark and Norway, the deposed royal house of Greece, the deposed imperial Russian family Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov, and Charles, Prince of Wales. The granddaughter of Hitler's finance minister Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Beatrix von Storch is a descendent of the former ruling family of Oldenburg. Von Storch's remarks come months after Germany enacted a stringent law against hate speech which would also target social media sites that do not take down "illegal" posts. "Some people are wondering about it, but for us it's a normal way to spread information." "Our intention is to reach people," he added about the Arabic message. "If we suspect that it could be a criminal offense, we are legally obliged to do so," he said. Cologne police have already filed a criminal complaint, with Press Officer Thomas Held explaining that it was a normal procedure. "The German police now communicate in Arabic, although the official language in our country is German."Īuthorities are now considering whether von Storch should be charged with incitement to hatred. "The year begins with the censorship law and the submission of our authorities in front of the imported, marauding, groping, beating, knife stabbing migrant mobs, which we should get used," she posted on Facebook. "This is the end of the constitutional state," she wrote.ĪfD leader Alice Weidel voiced support for her party member by criticising the police as well as the social media sites. On being reactivated, she posted that Facebook had also chosen to censor her. The alt right politician went on to accuse the police of trying to "appease" the "barbaric, gang-raping Muslim hordes of men".įollowing her tweet, the MP's Twitter account was suspended on 1 January for 12 hours. Retired Royal Marine charged with murder after wife's body discovered at Suffolk home ![]()
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