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Berlin (dpa) - Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has spoken out in favor of holding all those responsible for the storming of the Capitol to account - including the instigators.
In doing so, he also pleaded indirectly for the punishment of US President Donald Trump, whom he had previously made jointly responsible for the attack on the parliament building.
It is now necessary for all democrats to join forces against the enemies of democracy, Maas said on Thursday in a Bundestag debate on the unrest in the USA.
“This alliance begins with holding the perpetrators of such derailments accountable.
These include the violent rioters, and that includes their instigators.
Anyone who rushes bears responsibility, ”said the SPD politician.
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After storming the Capitol a week ago, Trump had to face impeachment proceedings in the US Senate for "inciting riot".
Maas said it was not his place to evaluate the so-called impeachment.
"Ultimately, however, it is nothing more than an expression of the American need not to let the damage to their democratic institutions not go without consequences."
Maas emphasized that the storming of the Capitol did not come as a surprise to him after Trump's election fraud allegations.
"Donald Trump has disregarded the democratic decision of American voters and he has trampled the democratic rules of the game, especially in the past few weeks," he said.
The reactions from Beijing and Moscow to the unrest in Washington, the glee in Iran, Venezuela and North Korea showed "the disservice right-wing populists are doing to their countries and the danger they pose to democracy".
On Wednesday last week, protests by angry supporters of Trump in the capital Washington had escalated and at times plunged the political center of the USA into unprecedented chaos.
Shortly before the storm on the Capitol, Trump appeared in front of his supporters, repeated his unsubstantiated election fraud allegations and called on his supporters to move to the seat of the US Parliament.
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In the Bundestag debate, several MPs drew a parallel to the occupation of the stairs of the Reichstag building at a demonstration by opponents of the state corona measures in August.
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what happened here was the same in terms of its layout as the storming of the Capitol in Washington on January 6, ”said FDP foreign policy official Alexander Graf Lambsdorff.
“The parallels are obvious: A large group of people who for years have been misled with lies by enemies of freedom, anti-democrats and their journalistic gun tensioners, are taking action under the leadership of cynical ringleaders and violent groups against attempted and sometimes even completed crimes Freedom, the rule of law and democracy. "
Bundestag Vice President Petra Pau (left) also spoke of a "violent attack on parliamentary democracy" in the USA.
When asked himself whether something similar could happen to us in Germany and Europe, the CDU foreign politician Jürgen Hardt said: "I warn against carelessly claiming that we are immune from it."
You saw it in August.
For the Greens, Agnieszka Brugger drew the conclusion: "We must defend our democracy with maximum vigilance and with the strength of a defensive constitutional state."
Gottfried Curio of the AfD called the comparison between the incidents in Berlin and Washington “a shamelessly false comparison of facts to incite the German population against critics of government policy with images of horror from the USA”.
Curio continues: "This is hatred, this is agitation against democratic-opposition minorities."
The suspension of Trump's Twitter account and the deletion of more than 70,000 accounts of supporters of the conspiracy theory "QAnon" by the short service Twitter called Curio, alluding to the Nazis in Germany, as "a book burning of gigantic proportions".
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