Clashes between hooded demonstrators and police marked the start of a party congress of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), weeks after it scored record EU election results despite multiple scandals.
About 1,000 police were deployed in the western city of Essen as about 600 delegates began a two-day meeting, with authorities expecting up to 80,000 people to join demonstrations.
“Several disruptive violent actions occurred in the Rüttenscheid quarter. Demonstrators, some of them hooded, attacked security forces. Several arrests were made,” said the police of North Rhine-Westphalia region on X.
Translation: “It is always astonishing how the useful idiots of #Bunten yell ‘against fascism’, #widersetzen violently prevent democratic assemblies and do not even begin to realize that they themselves are the fascists.”
Immer wieder erstaunlich, wie die nützlichen Idioten der #Bunten ‘gegen den Faschismus’ plärren, sich #widersetzen, demokratische Versammlungen gewaltsam verhindern und dabei nicht im Ansatz realisieren, dass sie selbst die Faschisten sind.#Grugahalle #AfDBundesparteitag pic.twitter.com/LM7CedtQ8K
— Hartes Geld (@Hartes_Geld) June 29, 2024
Translation: “How white can a demonstration be? Almost no migrants take part in the counter-demonstrations.”
Wie weiß kann eine Demonstration sein? Es beteiligen sich fast keine Migranten an den Gegendemonstrationen. #e2906 #Grugahalle #AfDBPT24 pic.twitter.com/lvKTmy5ofu
— Junge Freiheit (@Junge_Freiheit) June 29, 2024
