The AfD tried to exploit the attack in Magdeburg for migration policy purposes – when it became clear that the perpetrator was an AfD supporter who criticized the “islamization of Germany”, it made a change. From then on, the party’s focus was no longer on the perpetrator, but rather on the victims.
Meanwhile, far-right protesters want the attacker to be remembered for the fact that he was not an ethnic German, but a migrant from Saudi Arabia, even though he was avid supporter of the AfD, with its core “remigration” agenda – political euphemism for the mass deportation of non-ethnic/non-white Germans. The protesters called for stronger controls on migration after German authorities.
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