AfD officials shrugged off the fact that a deportation song was sung at their election party in Brandenburg. The police are investigating a complaint, and “Die Atzen” have also made a statement.
The police are investigating the suspicion of incitement after AfD supporters sang a song about deportations for several minutes at the Brandenburg AfD election party in Potsdam. The background to this is a corresponding complaint, the police in Potsdam said. The police became aware of the song through a published video. “A corresponding complaint was then filed and the matter is now being investigated.” The Green Party politician Volker Beck had written on Portal X that he had filed a complaint on the accusation of incitement.
On Sunday evening, several young AfD supporters sang a song about deportations. To the melody of the song “That’s going on. We’re celebrating all night” by the band “Die Atzen,” they sang: “Hey, that’s going on, we’re deporting them all, all of them.” They also held up a sign with the words “Deport millions of people.”
The band reacted to the case with a post on Instagram. “The only people who are allowed to rewrite our song are the Hertha BSC Ostkurve and Spongebob.” The Berlin-based musicians were not available for further comment. Fans of the second division soccer team Hertha BSC rewritten the song to “Hey, that’s going to happen, we’re going to win the championship.” There is also a version of the song by the cartoon character Spongebob.
AfD comments on deportation song
The AfD leadership sees the deportation song as unproblematic. The chairman of the AfD Brandenburg, René Springer, said that this behavior by members of the Junge Alternative was relatively harmless compared to the SPD party youth’s demands on abortion. The song was part of the election campaign of the youth organization Junge Alternative.
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Federal chairman Tino Chrupalla said: “We are talking about young people here. (…) And they also have a right to celebrate exuberantly.” Brandenburg AfD top candidate Hans-Christoph Berndt said: “The real scandal is the everyday crime and violence in Germany and not the singing of a song.”
Source: Stern
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