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German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser criticized the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) for politicizing last week’s Magdeburg Christmas market attack, where a car drove into crowds, killing 5 and injuring over 200.

Faeser condemned the AfD’s rally, attended by 3,500 people, as exploiting victims’ suffering ahead of February snap elections.

The 50-year-old suspect, Taleb A., a Saudi-born German resident since 2006, is in custody.

Investigators are examining his motives, noting his criticism of Islam and prior support for the AfD.

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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Shut the fuck up. This asshole polarised the attack for herself again demanding stronger "security laws". This means that she again wants to track everything(she is known for demanding this quite regularly). The problem wasn't lack of information. It was ignoring warnings. The fucking police(?) of Saudi Arabia and a lot of germans warned the German police about this guy and they straight up ignored it.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Politicize the shit out of it. That dude was an AfD sympathizer, radicalized by their hateful agenda. How could you not use this against the AfD?

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You can't reason with racism. They believe he was essentially an Arab, and that is the source of his violence. Also, his race makes him unworthy to attack white Christians no matter how "righteous" the motive.

It's kinda like the Daniel Penny vs. Luigi Mangioni dynamic. Murder is not wrong per se, just who has station and authority to kill whom.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 16 hours ago

I don't want to reason with them, but the voters

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I find this kind of approach is bizarre and increasingly out of date. "don't politicise an attack" but the attack raises very important political questions.

Parties shying away from the discussion are just giving free space for Afd to push it's narrative and version of how to deal with the problems. Other parties in Germany, and across the West, need to start dealing with this issue head on - the idea of a some central mass consensus is breaking down because it is not offering any solutions to the problems being raised by such attacks.

Lots of far right parties are rising across Europe and instead of blaming voters, politicians need to listen and start address the problems instead of allowing the extreme end of politics to come in and offer extreme solutions.

The "mainstream" parties need to start addressing immigration, integration and social cohesion. There are not going to be easy solutions, but stop leaving such topics for the far rightt wing parties to offer the only solutions.

Complaining Afd are "exploiting" the attacks is weak and a failure of leadership from the other parties to tackle the actual issues.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

That, and use the power the people have given you to make things better for the people. Not corporations or GDP but what your people need to feel happier.

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

allowing the extreme end of politics to come in and offer extreme solutions.

None of them offer solutions. Just screaming bullshit.

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

May be doing a translation of some parameters of the story helps to highlight the absurd behind the whole thing: what if pre-WWII a perturbed individual, with nazi beliefs despite being conscious of his jew origins, kills Germans attempting to promote the reasoning that jews must be handled according to nazi ideals and the nazi party pretends to use it with this intent…