Caroline Bosbach praises murdered Charlie Kirk – and deletes her post

Caroline Bosbach has the murdered Christian conservative US activist Charlie Kirk In a now deleted Instagram contribution, referred to as “fighter for western values”. She emphasized Kirk’s willingness for discussion with political opponents: “Hardly anyone stood for free debate as he. Kirk bordered the other person, but traveled through all of America to get into conversation with them,” wrote the CDU member of the Bundestag. With Kirk one of the “most influential young conservative voices worldwide”.

The Greens in Rheinisch-Bergische Kreis criticized the appreciation. “While the violent death of the controversial politician has to be sentenced without restriction, the positive representation of a person who repeatedly expressed itself racist, sexist and democratic and democratic must be critically questioned,” said the Greens. Kirk was known for his extremist positions. Among other things, he described black women as intellectually inferior, the Greens claimed.

Your contribution has Bosbach now removed again. In a short text to her followers, the politician wrote that she had put Kirk’s merit for freedom of expression. “You can do that, even if you don’t share every one of his statements.” Many comments then passed the topic completely. “That didn’t do justice to the matter.”

Bosbach comes from Bergisch Gladbach and won the direct mandate in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis for the CDU. Local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia are on this Sunday.

The 31-year-old Kirk, who was known as the supporter of US President Donald Trump, was shot in the state of Utah on Wednesday during a speech on the campus of a university. He later died in the hospital. The governor assumes a “political assassination attempt”. In the meantime, a 22 -year -old suspect has been caught.