Germany is beset with foreigners committing crimes on an unprecedented scale, with many of these criminals avoiding serious prison sentences or deportation, but the biggest current scandal is a group of young people who sang “Germany for the Germans, foreigners out,” over the tune of the party song “L’amour toujours” by Gigi D’Agostino.
The news story, which features a video that lasted mere seconds, has run nearly non-stop in Germany, with some of the country’s highest-level politicians weighing in on a video in which nobody was physically attacked, raped or maimed. There are of course many such videos in Germany — in fact thousands of them every year — involving foreigners or people with a foreign background committing extreme violence. The German government does not comment on them because these videos do not fit the narrative.
In fact, even German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned the video, while Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD) has called for the youth in the video to receive the harshest punishment possible, including “perhaps even the maximum penalty.”
A maximum sentence in such a case, which would be a violation of section 86a in the German criminal code, which refers to “unconstitutional symbols,” would result in three years in prison. In a case where they are found guilty of “incitement against the people,” the suspects in this case could spend five years in prison.
“The advantage is that this video exists and certain people can be identified,” said Bas. She stated that “such things, anti-constitutional slogans, are to be punished,” adding that Germany’s criminal law provides plenty of options for prosecuting the perpetrators.
“I hope they get a decent punishment,” the SPD politician added.
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| Bärbel Bas, President of the German parliament makes remarks at the end of her visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, Wednesday, April 27, 2022, ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) |
