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Luisa Neubauer's criticism of “Anne Will” on Sunday evening was sharp.
"They legitimize racist, anti-Semitic, identity and incidentally also science-denying content, embodied by Hans-Georg Maaßen," accused the Fridays-for-Future activist to the CDU chairman Armin Laschet - who was amazed at the sharpness of the allegations.
Now the person who was at stake has spoken: Hans-Georg Maaßen.
He told WELT on Monday: "What Ms. Neubauer said about me on the program 'Anne Will' are unfounded and paperless statements that I reject."
Maassen's nomination as the top candidate of the CDU in the Thuringian constituency of Suhl-Schmalkalden had caused many criticisms.
But Neubauer had not proven the alleged anti-Semitism in the broadcast on Sunday.
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Perhaps she was referring to a recent interview by Maassen with the right-wing activist Klaus-Peter Weber.
In it he criticized the German attitude towards climate protection with the words: "We have already tried to save the world twice, every time it went wrong".
Maaßen also repeatedly speaks of “globalists”.
Activist Luisa Neubauer in the show "Anne Will" on Sunday evening
Source: dpa / Wolfgang Borrs