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The Hesse regional association of the AfD youth organization will be founded in Fulda today. A large number of counter-demonstrators are expected. We follow the events in the live ticker.
Fulda – Aljoscha Harmsen, press spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament, assumes that around 30 delegates will gather in the community center in Johannesberg from 11 a.m. today to found the Hesse regional association of the AfD youth organization “Generation Germany”..
The number of counter-demonstrators who want to gather at 10 a.m. at the parking lot at Aueweiher on Olympiastrasse in Fulda in order to move from there to Johannesberg is likely to be significantly larger. A democracy festival will take place there from 10:30 a.m. with stands from various organizations as well as performances by artists and various speeches. The demo and festival initiated an alliance of eight organizations active throughout Hesse.
Large demonstration in Fulda against the founding of the Hessian AfD youth
Because of the expected number of participants – the police assume a “number of up to four digits” – it will There will be traffic restrictions in and around Johannesberg all Saturday. The thoroughfare in Johannesberg has been closed since Friday at 7 p.m. This is expected to remain in place until Saturday evening.
On Friday night, AfD opponents expressed their protest against the youth organization and the planned establishment of the new Hesse state association. They put up a banner in front of the community center in Johannesberg on which they clearly expressed their rejection of the AfD youth. They sprayed the words “Nazis not welcome” in red paint on the courtyard in front of the community center.
They also tampered with the door locks to the community center in order, according to their own statement, to “take away the rooms from the AfD and its youth.” The unknown persons announced this in a report to various media. The police are currently investigating property damage. (Collaboration: Philipp Melchiors)
