After the Magdeburg attack with at least five fatalities and 200 injured, the AfD is planning its own “Funeral March”.
The AfD’s federal chairwoman, Alice Weidel, will speak at the rally on Monday afternoon in the city center, along with AfD state politicians Martin Reichardt, Jan Wenzel Schmidt, Oliver Kirchner, Ulrich Siegmund, and Hans-Thomas Tillschneider.
In a statement, it was said that whoever promotes immigration from all over the world also imports the conflicts from all over the world to Germany. “The perpetrator was known to German authorities as a danger. There were warnings, and even Saudi Arabia demanded his extradition. But due to supposed legal standards, this was not done.” Instead of banning the danger, it was simply watched, the AfD said.
The party again demanded that suspected terrorists must be deported more consistently, and that consideration for possibly different legal views in their countries of origin should not put the safety of their own population at risk. “Security authorities must focus more on real dangers. Instead of monitoring patriotic citizen groups, the focus should be on observing foreign extremists” the AfD said in its event announcement.