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Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, who arrived in Germany on Sunday at the invitation of the popular daily Bild Zeitung, gave a press conference on Wednesday morning in Berlin. A few days before the 30th anniversary of the fall of the wall, he compares the situation of Hong Kong to that of Berlin in the 1980s.
From our correspondent in Berlin , Nathalie Versieux
Joshua Wong did not come to Germany to caress the German authorities in the direction of the hair. The tone is serious, without compromise. White shirt, gray blazer, austere face behind his small round glasses, the opponent of 22 years openly regrets that he was unable to meet Angela Merkel, " a political leader," he said in recent weeks, whose word counts in the world. "
Intransigence
Even uncompromising towards the business community, which Wong criticizes to underestimate the economic weight of the banking metropolis Hong Kong for the benefit of industrial China.
On several occasions during his press conference, he denounces the arms sales of Western powers to the Hong Kong police . Here too Germany is targeted. " With regard to Germany, we are concerned about the rifles and bullets that are sold in Hong Kong. Police tanks, and water cannons are also made in Germany. So I think it's time for the free world to be responsible for the brutality of the police in Hong Kong . "
Then departure to the United States
Joshua Wong will spend a few more days in Germany. Various meetings with members of the Bundestag are scheduled on his agenda. He will leave at the end of the week to the United States where different meetings are still planned with American deputies and senators.
In Berlin, I tell Berlin why protests carry on intensified police brutality and heavier suppression from Beijing. https://t.co/vZqFkuK9Yb
Joshua Wong 黃 之 鋒 (@joshuawongcf) September 11, 2019