BOris Palmer hadn’t even entered the controversial migration conference in Frankfurt when he caused a stir: he said the N-word demonstratively and several times to demonstrators in front of the entrance. His subsequent planned explanation was lost in loud protests from the demonstrators. “We don’t want to hear that, boy,” shouted one of the protesters. As the demonstrators chanted “Nazis out,” Palmer joined in. “You judge people by a single word,” the politician responded, according to one later posted on Twitter Video shows. “It’s none other than the Star of David.”
Finally, on Saturday morning, the organizer of the conference also commented on the incident on Friday evening. “I emphatically distance myself from Boris Palmer’s statements,” writes Susanne Schröter from the Frankfurt Research Center Global Islam, who invited Palmer to the conference to speak, according to the program, about a “memorandum for a different migration policy.” “His behavior severely damaged the very good and differentiated conference and is unacceptable.” Schröter took over the moderation of Palmer’s appearance on Friday evening after the original moderator refused to do so in protest against the politician’s statements.
