Hearing Thuringian State Parliament: Kerkeling: "We do not tolerate fascism in Germany"
Entertainer Hape Kerkeling at a hearing on the pros and cons of an AfD ban procedure? As the grandson of a Nazi victim, he has a message.
Entertainer Hape Kerkeling, whose grandfather was a concentration camp inmate in Buchenwald, has accused the AfD of being enemies of the constitution due to their downplaying of the Nazi past. Speaking at a hearing in the Thüringer Landtag in Erfurt, Kerkeling stated that the AfD's trivialization of the Nazi regime's crimes disqualifies them from participating in Germany's democracy.
The AfD has been classified as right-wing extremist by the Thüringer Landesverfassungsschutz, particularly under the leadership of Björn Höcke. Kerkeling called on politicians to initiate proceedings to ban the AfD, emphasizing that defending the constitution is not a matter of left or right, but a fundamental issue.
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