This was only his first statement. Some days later he doubled down:
“Wer es aus dem Lebensalltag sieht, weiß, dass ich mit dieser Bemerkung, die ich in der letzten Woche gemacht habe, recht habe. […] Fragen Sie Ihre Kinder, fragen Sie Ihre Töchter, fragen Sie im Bekanntenkreis. Alle bestätigen, dass das ein Problem ist, spätestens mit Einbruch der Dunkelheit.”
Paraphrased: “I’m right, ask your daughters, why they are afraid to go out in the dark.”
Sorry, I cannot find the original text – the search engines are cluttered with reactions to his statements – but he even trippled down describing the train stations and surrounding areas of Hamburg and Frankfurt and a third city I forgot as filled with drug dealers and drug users who are immigrants.
And yes, he was specifically talking about immigrants. That’s the racist part. And he targets specifically poor and sick immigrants. He sells deportation as a solution for perceived security issues and visible poverty and ignores the fact that both poverty and drug addiction are systemic issues older than modern migration, and that the immigrants he’s bashing are not the cause, but the victims.
This was only his first statement. Some days later he doubled down:
Paraphrased: “I’m right, ask your daughters, why they are afraid to go out in the dark.”
Sorry, I cannot find the original text – the search engines are cluttered with reactions to his statements – but he even trippled down describing the train stations and surrounding areas of Hamburg and Frankfurt and a third city I forgot as filled with drug dealers and drug users who are immigrants.
And yes, he was specifically talking about immigrants. That’s the racist part. And he targets specifically poor and sick immigrants. He sells deportation as a solution for perceived security issues and visible poverty and ignores the fact that both poverty and drug addiction are systemic issues older than modern migration, and that the immigrants he’s bashing are not the cause, but the victims.