After memorial action against AfD politician Björn Höcke in his Thuringian residence Bornhagen, prosecutor’s office in Mulhouse investigates artist collective Center for Political Beauty (ZPS). There was an initial suspicion of attempted coercion, said a spokesman of authority. A corresponding penalty report is available – but not from Höcke. It is about ZPS call to politician, before Holocaust memorial in Berlin or before replica on a neighbouring plot Höckes on knees to ask for forgiveness for German crimes of Second World War – orwise in past Höcke Information collected.
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On Twitter, ZPS commented on investigation only scarcely. “Today re is a message that is being determined against us. Comments from us unnecessary. ” According to DPA, activists are now moved of ir demand for a knee-Höckes. Previously, Thuringian Landtag President Christian Carius had called for an end to action.
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— Political Beauty (@politicalbeauty) November 27, 2017
The artists had placed several concrete steles on Höckes neighbouring plot in Thuringian Bornhagen: a copy of Berlin Holocaust Memorial. The AfD politician had been observed from rented property for ten months, and ZPS was told. “Several insightful dossiers” were created.
With action, activists protest against a speech Höckes in January in Dresden. Höcke had criticized commemoration of murder of European Jews by Nazis and called for a “reminder political turnaround of 180 degrees”. “We Germans, our people, are only people in world who have planted a monument of shame in heart of its capital,” said Höcke. The action of ZPS runs under auspices of Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin as part of 3rd Berlin Autumn Salon.
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The AfD Federal Executive Committee called ZPS Action “an attack on human dignity”. Höcke said, “Whoever does such a thing is a terrorist in my eyes.” Höcke accused activists of observing his wife and children and auctioning personal items on Internet. The replica of memorial is now closed to public. According to activists, re had been anonymous threats against ZPS.
The Center for political beauty is known for provocative actions. In 2014, activists assembled 14 commemorative crosses for victims of wall at Berlin spree in protest against EU refugee policy and later brought m back. In 2016, y held four living tigers in a large cage in front of Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin for two weeks and announced several times that refugees would be publicly “mangled”.
