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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann called after the riots at the US Congress to defend democracy against its enemies.
"The firewall against the right wing must stand," said the Green politician on Friday in the state parliament in Stuttgart.
He also recalled the pictures of the storming of the Reichstag in autumn during the demonstrations against the Corona measures.
Democracy is not a finished product, but a process that has to be fought for over and over again.
The pictures of the storming of the Capitol showed where it would lead if "the focus is not on reason and facts, but on paranoia and conspiracy theories," emphasized Kretschmann.
In the US capital on Wednesday (local time) protests by angry supporters of the elected US President Donald Trump escalated and at times plunged the political center of the US into unprecedented chaos.
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The anti-Semitism commissioner of the state government, Michael Blume, told the "Badischer Tagblatt" (Saturday): "The conspiracy movements in Germany and the USA are digitally closely linked."
However, he currently sees “no acute danger from conspiracy movements for our democracy”.
The religious scholar referred, among other things, to the performance of “lateral thinking” founder Michael Ballweg in the Stuttgart mayor election.
He got 1.2 percent of the vote.
"Unfortunately, there are still very many belittled people who belittle white, bourgeois conspiracy believers as" conspiracy theorists "," Blume said of the newspaper.
"This is not about harmless weirdos with a funny hobby, but about people who really believe in a world conspiracy of Jews and democrats."