Jette Nietzard: The Greens despair of the boss of the youngsters

So the Greens did not imagine it. Just think about what the best points of attack are to be able to drive the new government of the Union and SPD out of the opposition, the public debate is about whether something is not going wrong with the Greens.

Reason again: Jette Nietzard, 26 years old, head of the Green Youth – and the question of how much green position is actually what the spokeswoman for the young organization of very far left in her almost always provocative statements and actions.

The current occasion: a sweater that Nietzard carried on the way to the Bundestag. She invited a photo of it to Instagram – then the abbreviation “ACAB”. This stands for “all cops are bastards” and can be translated accordingly with “All police officers are pigs”. The statement is often used in the left to left -wing extremist milieu.

According to the Federal Constitutional Court, the “granting of the letter combination ‘ACAB’ in public space” is covered by freedom of expression and “not easily punishable”, but the Greens, which leads to leading, apparently fear great damage if such a position is connected to their party.

In any case, they hurried to condemn the action and distance themselves. Former party leader Omid Nouripour, now Bundestag Vice President, made it clear to the “Bild” newspaper that everyone should adhere to the rules of the Bundestag. A “flat -rate insult” by the police is certainly not part of the rules, but “just outrageous”.

The co-chair of the Greens, Franziska Brantner, reposted a tweet by the deputy group leader Konstantin von Notz. He had written that the slogan was a “completely underground, unacceptable and insulting take for all police officers, who – often moderately paid – campaign every day for our rule of law, our security and our freedom”.

The other of the two bosses, Felix Banaszak, is forced to point to RTL/NTV to point out that the “no course or wing question was with the Greens”. So the tenor: that has nothing to do with us Greens!

Just what follows? The public convictions of the Greens of something that Nietzard says or does have become a ritual. Regarding a ritual that has something very helpless: Nietzard expresses a provocation that publicly ensures excitement, the Greens try to capture the statement again and assert that this has nothing to do with the Greens – whereupon the next provocation usually only follows a few time later.

No, the party has not been lucky with her squad smithy recently. Previously, there were Katharina Stolla and Svenja Appuhn, who at the end of a stricter process of alienation finally escaped from the party with great bang and announced that they wanted to found a left -wing youth association.

Quite a few in the green ranks want Nietzard want to finally take back – some that someone else would be at the head of the Green Youth. Another like her co-spokesman Jakob Blasel, a well-known climate activist who has a different backing in many in the Green Group, but of whom there is little to hear. Nietzard always attracts attention.

Can it go on like this? When asked whether Nietzard could remain the chair of the Green Youth, party leader Banaszak replies, that is “a question that the Green Youth discusses with each other”. Nietzard was only elected to the top last November at a gathering of the Green Youth, with a good result of over 84 percent.

With reference to her provocations, he himself “asked her again and again to see her role”. Banaszak, who himself was at the top of the Green Youth himself, said that he would also “want a few consequences for the future”.

The former Federal Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir, who leads his party to the Baden-Württemberg state election campaign, becomes clearer: The police defend “in the highest personal commitment every day the values ​​that make us as a party,” wrote Özdemir on “X”. “If you didn’t get that, we are wrong with us.”

But that Nietzard is impressed by it cannot be assumed. The young Greens regretted her Instagram post. “I don’t think that was the right way to draw attention to the problems,” she said in star– “5-minute talk”. She has “this sweater as a private individual”, but she should have been clear, according to Nietzard, that she as a spokeswoman for the Green Youth.

Nietzard sticks to their hard police criticism. “Of course I don’t hate the police as a whole, but what I hate is the system behind it and how it is built.” There are no reasonable police studies, no structural processing of violence and racist tendencies that the police would not be transparent enough.

This is not enough for Irene Mihalic. You expect “an apology without a back door,” said the first parliamentary managing director who is a policewoman herself star. She couldn’t believe that a politician of her party positioned herself with a “inhumane abbreviation like ACAB”. Unfortunately, Nietzard’s “previous attempts to explain” would not have done better, “but rather more annoying”. The Greens had a “differentiated view of the police”, and that was correct. “But if you defamate all police officers, it is not a contribution to a content -related debate.”

Nietzard, who sometimes refers to itself as “radical left”, acts out of conviction, so much is certain. Sometimes she considers the public excitement to be exaggerated. But, that also becomes clear: to start the attention machinery is your strategy. The Greens should continue to despair.