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Berlin (dpa) - Climate activist Luisa Neubauer has accused Hans-Georg Maaßen of spreading “racist and anti-Semitic content” and called on CDU leader Armin Laschet to act.
Laschet replied in the ARD program "Anne Will", in which he sat with Neubauer on Sunday evening: "Anti-Semitism would not be acceptable".
And further: "I tell you, he is not an anti-Semite and he does not distribute any anti-Semitic texts and if he did, it would be a reason for exclusion from the party."
"There is nothing where I become as rigorous as with anti-Semitism."
Neubauer specifically accused Maaßen of distributing the content of anti-Semitic blogs.
Laschet said that Neubauer had to prove that Maaßen was an anti-Semite.
"If that's him, I'll act, I don't know the lyrics."
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Ex-Constitutional Protection President Hans-Georg Maaßen was nominated by four CDU district associations as a direct candidate for the Bundestag in southern Thuringia at the end of April.
This has been heavily criticized in some cases within the Union, but also by other parties.
Maaßen is controversial in parts of the CDU because of his critical stance on the federal government's liberal refugee policy in 2015 and 2016.
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