After death on city festival: Höcke plans AfD funeral march in Chemnitz

Chemnitz will face further demonstrations in the coming days, including on Saturday a so-called silent march of the AfD. Three right-wing politicians in the party called for this - the disputed Thuringian AfD leader Björn Höcke and the state chairmen of Brandenburg and Saxony, Andreas Kalbitz and Jörg Urban.

With the march Höcke and his colleagues want to remember the death of 35-year-old Daniel H., who was killed last Sunday after a city festival suspected of being a Syrian and an Iraqi. It is about Daniel H. and "all the dead of the compulsory culturalization of Germany," it says in the typical jargon of AfD rights to Höcke.

For the funeral procession, the three AfD politicians have made concrete specifications. Apparently they fear that participants of the train could be canceled.

Among other things it is said that the participants should wear "covered, best black clothes", there should be no "consumption of food and drink during the silent march".

Likewise, "smoking must be avoided". Any kind of expression on garments want to prohibit the country chiefs, and there should be no political messages from the AfD, as well as no posters and other advertising. Only black-red-golden flags and the white rose as a sign of mourning were allowed. One does not want extremists and violent perpetrators "in our ranks", it goes on.

Criticized - an almost consistent tone in many AFD statements of the past days - the reporting of many media to Chemnitz. The "antitrust media" had tried to make from the city of the victims a city of the perpetrators, write the three AFD country chiefs.

And they warn the participants of the funeral: The media would leave no stone unturned to discredit the peaceful protest. "Do not give the press representatives the pictures they are waiting for," said Höcke, Kalbitz and Urban.

In addition, they warn against the introduction of provocateurs, "of whom ever". Folks of the funeral procession should therefore be reported provocations. And: "If possible, film crime scenes to gather evidence for subsequent prosecution."