back to work they re not thanks and for it where before they were and i think that s a big part of what the f.d.a. is making making possible for the new right matthew some people would say mainstream politicians are also lowering the threshold to the phobic talk and the person i mean in particular would be the head of the chancellor s sister party the very conservative party he said just this week apparently in an internal party meeting that he thinks the main problem in germany today is migration horsy hoffa has he in fact helped to normalize the kind of xenophobia we re now seeing on the streets well i think we d have to know exactly what he meant by that i think he might have meant that this migration crisis which and the handling of the crisis and the political fallout from it is the mother of all crises politically in germany now because it has opened the door in many people s view to this search by the a.f.p. which you know is you know wasn t even on the map really in two thousan
seeing mob violence actually orchestrated by the far right by neo nazis and would you say that this ideology is taking on mass appeal in large swathes of eastern germany or does that go too far. well i think those are really two very different question i don t think that they re orchestrated by the f.d.a. . i think they re they re more spontaneous eruption the definitely the protests are organized but what we ve seen that you know people who aren t white are being chased through the streets the video that we thought of that. i don t think that that s that s just an eruption of violence i would say. and i think that the f.d.a. plays a role in that as you said linda they re making it more possible for people to say these things without actually having to fear anything from society they can just go
people is in the hundreds of thousands so i think a lot of normal citizens and legislation this is why you need legislation to deal with that but and it hasn t been done and i think this is the frustration that a lot of normal germans feel led to just taking us back to the immediate reaction to what s going on in kept at the question posed by our title can germany defeat its demons in the whole federal cabinet only one minister has actually been to candidates in the aftermath of these riots there and that s the family minister who herself has a background from eastern germany what s going on where are the rest of the government politicians and should they be standing up in a different way well left in the city interviewed her when she was in kenya i think she did a really good job you know bringing in the civil society talking to them and talk to them and they were said you know for. years nobody has talked to us you know so i mean it s it s important for politicians also to look at th
about. crime in the streets how much are we talking about far right protest and who s doing the talking where and for you valerie as a member of the online media can you just take us through the role that online media are playing in this deepening polarization and in what appears to be a certain discrepancy in terms of reporting on crime perpetrated by migrants because clearly many people who are going to the streets are people who feel that their streets are unsafe where is that coming from i feel like that that s one of the issues that really was underestimated by many people especially in berlin saying the government. where the internet has such a high potential for just getting these people together out on the streets and protesting in such a short amount of time however if you re talking about online media you have to
people is in the hundreds of thousands so i think a lot of normal citizens and legislation this is why you need legislation to deal with that but and it hasn t been done and i think this is the frustration that a lot of normal germans feel led to just taking us back to the immediate reaction to what s going on in kent at the question posed by our title can germany defeat its demons in the whole federal cabinet only one minister has actually been to candidates in the aftermath of these riots there and that s the family minister who herself has a background from eastern germany what s going on where are the rest of the government politicians and should they be standing up in a different way while left in the city interviewed her when she was in chemists and i think she did a really good job you know bringing in the civil society talking to them and talk to them and they were you know for. oh years nobody has talked to us so i mean it s it s important for politicians also to look at these