Thousands of protesters managed to delay this Saturday by two hours the start of the congress of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the second force in the polls ahead of the February 23 electionsin the Saxon town of Riesa (east), where incidents with the Police occurred.
The protests began at dawn and their promoters managed to temporarily cut the B169 road near Riesaas reported by the Saxon Police on their networks, while in some parts of the town, groups of protesters tried to break through the police cordons.
The organizers of the protests, a alliance against the right known as ‘Widersetzten’ (Oppose), they claimed on their X account that they had managed to “block almost all access to the AfD congress.”
“Despite numerous attempts, The AfD fascists did not manage to get past the blockades and they have had to turn around in many places,” they stated and denounced that the Police had used force in some cases to break up the sit-ins, with batons, pepper spray and water cannons.
For all these reasons, the start of the congress of the far-right party, scheduled for 10:00 a.m. local time, was delayed by two hours.
An outlet related to the training assured that the co-leader herself Alice Weidel, which is expected to be ratified during the congress as a candidate to the chancellery ahead of the elections, was affected by the blockades.
In the video released by Junge Freiheit you can see how a black vehicle, inside which Weidel was supposedly found, stops before a sit-in of activists who block the street, until the Police remove them by force.
A spokesman for the AfD, Bernd Baumann, in statements to the Phoenix network described the “extremist” protesters and said that it was a “catastrophe” that they managed to delay the start of the congress, in which the electoral program is also expected to be approved.
The regional deputy Robert Lambrou assured the same network that he had managed to enter the premises after walking two hours on foot but that some of his companions had suffered attacks on their vehicles by the “antifas”.
Six hundred delegates from the party, which in surveys represents over 20% of voting intentions, behind the conservative CDU-CSU bloc (30%) and ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (15%) will meet this Saturday and Sunday.
The Police expect up to 10,000 protesters from all over Germany to participate in today’s protests in approximately 200 buses.
It has been precisely a year since Germany experienced a massive mobilization against the AfDwith protests in which almost a million people participated simultaneously throughout the country, after the involvement of party members in a meeting of right-wing extremists in which plans to expel Germany were discussed to immigrants and citizens of foreign origin.
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