Green party candidate Yvonne Mosler and others were verbally and physically assaulted in an incident recorded by a DW film crew on Tuesday.
Mosler and her team were hanging campaign posters in the eastern German city of Dresden.
The city council candidate, was verbally attacked then spat upon by a woman in the video, while her male accomplice could be seen shoving members of her team as the two yelled at them demanding the film be deleted.
Other individuals hurled unfounded insults reminiscent of the US conspiracy group QAnon, claiming the Green was a paedophile, as well as chanting far-right slogans and and yelling support for the right-wing party .
The attack occured on the same day that after being hit over the head by a man in a Berlin library.
Those attacks in turn came after several Green and SPD politicians were assaulted last week. The most serious of these incidents saw after being punched and kicked by four young men in Dresden.
Reminscent of the ‘truly darkest time in German history’
In an interview with DW Chief Correspondent Michaela Küfner, Saxony State Premier Michael Kretschmer of the warned of the raw political climate.
“This reminds one of that truly darkest time in German history… when people who are active in politics, who are dealing with political issues, are threatened by others.”
“That’s why the constitutional state, the police, but also we as a society — together — must clearly act with all the power at our disposal,” he added, citing the killing of Hesse State politician by a neo-Nazi in 2019.
with fears that violent and dehumanizing rhetoric from parties like AfD have led to a normalization of violence that some see as justified. Giffey called such attacks “a transgression that must be resolutely opposed by society.”
While these attacks are mostly aimed at and politicians, others have also been targeted, including local, state, federal and EU politicians.
js/dj (DW sources)
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