Eclat at Berlinale: Carsten Schneider Criticizes Pro-Palestinian Speech – and Leaves the Hall

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According to a spokesman, Environment Minister Carsten Schneider, who was present at the Berlinale, left the hall for a pro-Palestinian speech. A filmmaker accused the German government on stage of being a partner of "genocide in the Gaza Strip."

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Berlin: German Minister of the Environment Karsten Schneider distanced himself from a pro-Palestinian speech delivered by Palestinian Syrian director Abdullah Al-Khatib during the Berlin International Film Festival awards ceremony (Berlin). In statements to the German news agency (DBA), a spokesman for the Ministry said that Schneider of the Democratic Socialist Party was the only German government representative at the ceremony, [...]

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On the stage of the Berlinale Palace, filmmaker Abdallah Alkhatib accused the Federal Government of being responsible for an alleged genocide in the Gaza Strip. Federal Environment Minister Schneider left the hall in protest.