“This is Alice Weidel at Habeck level,” says Sahra Wagenknecht | EUROtoday

Sahra Wagenknecht criticizes AfD boss Alice Weidel for displaying insults. “Want to abolish something politically, but use it a hundred times, is-to say the least-inconsistent. Alice Weidel is at Habeck level,” mentioned the BSW chairman of the world.

According to analysis by “T-Online”, the AfD referred to paragraph 188 of the Criminal Code (StGB) in its prison complaints. This regulates “against people of political life, defamation and defamation”. It says: If an individual of public life is insulted due to that place and “the deed is suitable to make its public work significantly more difficult”, a jail sentence of as much as three years or a advantageous may be imposed.

The paragraph was launched as early as 1951, however was initially restricted to “defamation” and defamation. It was prolonged to insults in 2021.

The explosive on it: the AfD usually turns in opposition to the paragraph and calls for the abolition. Weidel’s spokesman defended the process of the get together leaders and spoke of a “legal equality of weapons”. The legislation is rejected, however “it would be foolish if the AfD would not defend itself until the abolition”.

Last yr, broadcasting of the then Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) was reported. The background was, for instance, a home seek for a person who had referred to as Habeck on the Internet.

The BSW calls for the cancellation of the paragraph. “I could have shown Karl Lauterbach several times because of the wild insults and I didn’t do it,” mentioned Wagenknecht concerning the former Federal Minister of Health from the SPD. Lauterbach simply described the BSW on X final week because the “party of Putinknechten” and referred to as the missed Bundestag entry of the Wagenknecht get together a “blessing”.

Wagenknecht rejects an specific naming of public individuals within the Criminal Code. “A majesty insulting paragraph does not match a liberal country. It is part of an authoritarian renovation of society, in which politicians no longer want to face the criticism of the citizens, but let go of public prosecutors,” mentioned the BSW boss.

Already within the election marketing campaign for the Bundestag election in February, Wagenknecht repeatedly referred to as for a deletion of the paragraph 188. In a world interview, she mentioned in December 2024: “You can make every government criticism.