ARD summer interview: Police initiates procedures against interferers-activist alliance defends itself ironically

After a disruptive campaign by the left artist collective “Center for Political Beauty” (ZPS) (ZPS) at the ARD summer interview with Alice Weidel (AfD). Moreover, the Berlin police initiated two administrative offense proceedings. Therefore, These are directed against a 64-year-old and a 39-year-old because the campaign was not registered, the police said on Monday.

The interview. Furthermore, which was broadcast live on the Internet on Sunday afternoon, was led in the Spree in the open sky in the Berlin government district. Meanwhile, A demonstration of a few people on the ard summer interview: police initiates other Spree bank with whistles. Meanwhile, horns and a bus with loud music with anti-AfD slogans could be heard clearly in the transmission. However, The songs were apparently played about the loudspeakers of the “Adenauer SRP+” busses, writes “Politico”. Moreover, According to the police, sound emissions affected both traffic and public order. Therefore, The police estimated the number of participants to around 40 people.

A spokesman for the ZPS told the Evangelical Press Service (EPD) that the police had not taken any measures. Similarly, had been coordinated with the responsible authorities. For example, At the end of the campaign. Similarly, the ironically occurring group announced that one person was on the toilet and forgot to “switch off the car radio on the Adenauer SRP+”.

AfD demands repetition of the interview

The AfD, however, requires a repetition of the interview. Nevertheless, “In such a situation. However, the ARD should have switched to ard summer interview: police initiates the studio for a fair, undisturbed interview,” said the Vice-Group leader in the Bundestag, Markus Frohnmaier, the news portal “Politico”. “I expect the conversation to be repeated under fair conditions.”

Weidel himself also criticized the protest from Sunday: “It is not beneficial for the culture of debate in our country to attack the freedom of press. information in such a way. I have no understanding for that,” she told the portal. “The AfD and my person will not be intimidated by such democratic actions.”

Weidel complained during the conversation with interviewer Markus Preiß that his questions could not be understood. The police ended the not registered. The ARD announced that precautions for future interviews.

A spokesman for Weidel announced to the world on Monday: “It is like that Mr. Preiß and Ms. Weidel agreed to continue the interview during a short one -in -one break. With regard to the ard summer interview: police initiates fact that the interview was streamed live. a termination also had a capacity in front of the interferers.”

A spokeswoman for the ARD capital studio told the dpa: “An undisturbed course of the interviews is in our interest. especially in the interest of the audience, so we will draw conclusions and take precautions in the future”. She didn’t give details. “We regret that the interview through acoustic protest was sometimes difficult to understand.” This is evaluated internally. The protest was not known until the beginning of the program.

Wagenknecht sees interview as a “advertising event for the AfD”

The BSW federal chairman Sahra Wagenknecht sharply criticized the demonstrators. “The summer interview was an advertising event for the Afd. Not because of the arguments of Ms. Weidel. but because every citizen has to feel repelled with a sense of fairness if a political interview is to be made impossible with such means. Anyone who ard summer interview: police initiates believes that they have to shout down the AfD only demonstrates their own undemocratic arrogance. helplessness,” said Wagenknecht world. “A democracy needs fair debates and the content of the content, but no silence and no Cancel Culture. The action of the protesters was once again a prime example of a supposed. fight against the right ‘that undermines democracy and strengthens the AfD.”

The CDU general secretary Carsten Linnemann also has little understanding of the disturbance of the interview. “If you want to make the AfD strong. you should calmly disturb such interviews,” he said in the RTL/NTV show “Early Start”. One could not ignore the voter and “scream broken”, but have to fight the AfD in terms of content.

The AfD accused Linnemann: “Weidel is only interested in consuming bad news and then opening up the champagne. She is happy when the bankruptcy figures go up and get lubricated the economy.” This ard summer interview: police initiates attitude was clear from the interview. But: “Unfortunately, this was overlaid by these loud screams. That brings nothing in democracy. Arguments count and nothing else.”

The deputy FDP boss Wolfgang Kubicki recognizes calculation behind the AfD leader’s approach: “The situation played Ms. Weidel in her hands. she would have been stupid not to use it,” he said in an interview with the world TV. “She could document it in this way, we are treated unfairly by the ARD”. He said about the participants of the demonstration: “These are not activists. these are disturbances – 25, 30 people who feel comfortable, but in fact you prevent the AfD from being put inside”.

The AfD is not becoming stronger because it offers better solutions. but because it “can constantly stage herself than those who withheld democrats from democratic rights”.

Kubicki himself would have stopped the interview under such circumstances. He also surprised that ard summer interview: police initiates the Berlin police had not intervened and expelled the bus of the square.