Heated atmosphere: The protest procession forms at Aschaffenburg’s Schlossplatz, with 50 farmers and their tractors in the middle.
Image: Björn Friedrich
They rail against “system whores”, wish politicians to go to jail and march together with the NPD: Right-wing extremists don’t hide from unconventional protests. Nevertheless, thousands come along.
Ralpha Bühler is loud and angry – and what he has to say sounds confused. “The only goal the politicians have is to destroy us,” he shouts into the microphone. “It must not mean: The traffic light government has to go. Or: The CDU has to go. Or: The AfD has to go. It must mean: Everyone who is guilty of the crimes against our country, against our people, against our children, who are abused every day, must go. All of them have to go, and they also have to go to jail for it.”
The last words of Bühler’s angry speech can hardly be understood anymore, the applause for the man wearing a black muscle shirt with the imprint “We are all people” is so strong, the drums and whistles on the Aschaffenburg Palace Square are so loud. 2000 demonstrators are gathered there on the last Sunday in June. Their protest is directed against the “green madness”: the policy of Federal Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir, the heating law from Robert Habeck’s ministry and generally against the alleged “ban orgies” of the eco-party.
