CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The German government is condemning the white nationalist rally in Virginia that turned violent Saturday, expressing solidarity with peaceful counter-protesters.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters Monday that it was an “absolutely repulsive scene at this extreme-right march.”
He said “there was outrageous racism, anti-Semitism and hate in its most despicable form to be seen, and whenever it comes to such speech or such images it is repugnant.”
He added that it’s “completely contrary to what the chancellor and the German government works for politically, and we are in solidarity with those who stand peacefully against such aggressive extreme-right opinions.”
Seibert says Merkel also regrets the death of a counter-protester and sent her sympathies to those injured.
Shamed. By the GERMANS about Nazism in our country. Let that sink in for a minute.
These “people” need to be stopped by whatever means necessary.
The American President is no longer the leader of the free world and that is pathetic.
Merkel: Leader of the free world. Trump: Banana republic dictator wannabe.
Wish I could rec this more than once. Germany remembers Nazism quite clearly, thank you very much and they have no problems with calling it out.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/13/an-american-tourist-gave-the-nazi-salute-in-germany-so-a-stranger-beat-him-up-police-say/?utm_term=.9fe57febdc3d
Counting down to the nonsense Trumptweet in response, betting on something about how Germans were Nazis first, you know, like how the KKK and slaveholders were Democrats. Reactive spasms of the feeblest of minds. And our great leader. Sigh.