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Berlin (dpa) - After the conviction of the murderer of the Kassel District President Walter Lübcke (CDU), politicians across all parties have called on not to let up in the fight against hatred and agitation.
"First there are words, and in the end there are actions against minorities or against people who take responsibility like Walter Lübcke," said Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble on Thursday evening on ZDF.
You have to defend yourself against the beginnings and prevent agitation in social media earlier and more decisively.
"Even freedom on the Internet cannot serve to undermine freedom," emphasized Schäuble.
The memory of the victims of National Socialism on Wednesday showed that one can learn from history to defend against the beginnings.
"And the danger is great enough," added Schäuble warningly.
The Frankfurt Higher Regional Court sentenced 47-year-old Stephan Ernst to life imprisonment for the murder of Lübcke.
The court determined the particular gravity of the guilt.
This means that a release from prison after 15 years is as good as impossible.
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The court regards it as proven that Ernst shot the North Hessian district president on his terrace in the Kassel district on the night of June 2, 2019.
He killed Lübcke because of his liberal stance on refugee policy.
In 2015, the politician defended the admission of refugees in Ernst's presence.
"The verdict in the Walter Lübcke murder case is the end of the legal process, but it does not replace our political mandate to never let up in the fight against hatred and agitation," said CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak of the editorial network Germany (RND / Friday).
The SPD leaders Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans told the RND: “The murderer of Walter Lübcke, like many other right-wing extremists in Germany, has been radicalized over the years.
More than 200 murders have been committed by violent right-wing extremists since reunification. "
The judgment in the Lübcke case shows that the rule of law is defensible.
But the murders of the last 30 years also showed "that our democracy is in danger."
It is now the task of each individual to face the danger.
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Green parliamentary deputy Konstantin von Notz criticized that the right-wing extremist structures behind the murder had not been clarified.
The verdict should not end “the urgent educational work,” said the Green politician of the “Passauer Neue Presse” (Friday).
The chairman of the parliamentary control body of the Bundestag (PKGr), Roderich Kiesewetter (CDU), demanded in the "Rheinische Post" (Friday) that the consequence for the German intelligence services as a whole must be "extremist structures even stronger and more comprehensive and seamless to take ».
The President of the German Association of Cities, Leipzig's Lord Mayor Burkhard Jung, demanded «consistently oppose when people in local politics or administration are treated inhumaneously, when councilors or people in the police, in health departments or the fire brigade mocked or insulted in a bad jargon be threatened or attacked ».
He himself bring everything to the display that he believes is a criminal offense, said Jung of the "Heilbronner Voice" (Friday).
"The public prosecutor's offices and courts are also obliged to punish criminal offenses as quickly as possible," demanded the President of the City Council.
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