During a memorial service for victims of National Socialism left members of the AFD Group in protest against a speech by Charlotte Knobloch the Bavarian state parliament. Now, the case seems to have an effect on the speaker herself: according to her own statements, the former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany is threatened.
"Since then, almost every minute I get insults, threats and insults by e-mail and telephone," said Knobloch the "Augsburger Allgemeine". "The danger emanating from the party and its supporters for our liberal democracy becomes so clear and only shows more that the Democrats in our country must stand against them," she said.
Already in her speech in the parliament in Munich, she had sharply attacked the AfD: "This so-called alternative for Germany bases its policy on hatred and exclusion and not only for me is not on the ground of our democratic constitution," said the chairman of the Israelite Jewish community Munich and Upper Bavaria said. As a result, AfD MPs left demonstratively the plenary hall.
Weidel: Knobloch abused the memorial service
The parliamentary leader of the AfD in the Bundestag, Alice Weidel, commented on Twitter on the incident: Knobloch had "barred" and abused the memorial service for party politics. Knobloch, in turn, told the news agency dpa that the AfD itself is very vocal and then reacts very unsuccessfully in criticizing its own party. "A party so right-wing is not part of a legislative body."
In October, Knobloch had also made clear in the interview with the SPIEGEL against the AfD: "For the first time a party has made it to the Bundestag, whose program can be summarized with the words: Jews out," she had said in the conversation ,
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution had recently declared the AfD a test case, the right-wing nationalist wing and the party junior organization "Junge Alternative" classified the constitutional protectors as a suspected case.