In Leipzig, a conference of right-wing compact magazine took place for sixth time. The 2010 founded magazine has its headquarters re. It is close to Pegida movement and AfD and is considered one of most influential media platforms of new rights. The Conference of magazine is one of most important meetings of right scene, to which well-known neo-Nazis arrive.
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According to Compact publishing house, up to 800 participants were in VergangenenJahren. The motto this year was opposition is called resistance!. Among speakers were Thuringian AfD Bundestag group chief Björn Höcke, Martin Seller, thought leader of Identitarian movement in Austria, and Jürgen Alsatian, editor-in-chief of compact magazine.
The compact conference in Leipzig is supposedly sold out: 500 Pegidisten, Identitary, neo-Nazis, AfD, compact employees and Aluhüte sit in “event Palace”-but Lutz Bachmann stands in rain and tries to joke. le2511 nocompact Pic.twitter.com/P7P8qUAgtO
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The landlord, in whose Leipzig event room The conference takes place, is mistaken. He was misled about what an event was, Thomas Hristov, managing director of Event Palace, informed in an opinion. He will take legal action for intentional deception.
In summer, event palace refore reached booking requests from compact publishing house, which had been rejected. Later came a request from an auctioneer and freight forwarder, who stated that he wanted to hold “motivation training for auctioneers” in premises. Only on Friday did he hear from police about what an event it was, said Hristov. The compact publisher kept venue of Conference secret, in order to make protest more difficult.
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About 200 people were demonstrating against conference. The NOCOMPACT initiative had called for this. This resulted in small wrangles between policemen and demonstrators, as people’s newspaper in Leipzig reported. Three cases were investigated for resistance against enforcement officers. The organizers had counted with 500 participants.
According to announcement of organizers, conference was dedicated to action of parties represented in Bundestag and federal government after entry of AfD into federal parliament. “What does resistance in se conditions mean?” was one of core issues.
Höcke denounces “terrorists”
The Identitary seller said with regard to Austrian election, in which right-wing populist FPOe reached 26 percent, that such election results were also possible in Germany. It needs daily resistance of each individual to put an end to “treachery and shame” of established parties. They wanted to “import new voters” to secure ir own power. He received strong applause.
Björn Höcke, AfD Group chairman in Thuringian Landtag, in front of event hall in Leipzig, where “compact” conference takes place © Sebastian Willnow/DPA
In his speech, Thuringian AfD-nationalist Höcke once again commented on controversial art action that has been running in front of his house in Bornhagen since Wednesday: The artistic group Center for Political Beauty had made concrete steles on specially rented Neighbouring plot Höckes, which commemorates Holocaust memorial in Berlin. Höcke called it a “monument of shame” in a speech in January and called for a “reminder political turnaround of 180 degrees”. Höcke described art activists as a “criminal and terrorist association”. Next he said, “These people have applied Nazi methods.” The group of artists has predetermined to have established a kind of civil protection of Constitution, which should observe Höcke.
The Centre for political beauty has temporarily canceled action on Saturday. The plot with steles in garden could not be secured, said Philipp Ruch, head of group. Hundreds of death threats had previously been received. It is hoped that action could continue on Monday.
