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Protesters Drown Out Live Interview with AfD Leader Alice Weidel
BERLIN, GERMANY, JUL 20 – Activist group Centre for Political Beauty used loudspeakers to disrupt AfD co-leader Alice Weidel's live ARD interview amid the party polling at 25%, second largest in Germany.
- On Sunday, Alice Weidel’s scheduled television interview in Berlin’s government quarter was drowned out by boisterous protesters across the River Spree.
- During ARD’s summer interview series, Centre for Political Beauty claimed responsibility and said it organized the rally to oppose the AfD.
- Twenty-Five protesters used loudspeakers and chanted slogans, and Weidel said, `I've got an echo in my ear, now I can't hear anything.`
- Alice Weidel and Markus Preiß acknowledged “difficult conditions,” saying it was almost impossible to understand each other, and an ARD spokesperson said it would “draw conclusions” and “take precautions in the future.”
- Public sentiment appears split as a majority oppose banning the AfD even as it ranks second among parties, with 52% against a ban, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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They took action against an AfD politician on live broadcast. They tried to drown out Alice Weidel's answers with whistles and noise.
The interview with Alice Weill is a shame for the ARD - if you only require incompetence. The left sturgeons are allowed to shoot the whole conversation and the station does nothing. Instead, there are no more quirky sayings - this ARD has absolutely no right to exist anymore.
An open-air interview with AfD party leader Alice Weiel almost went under in the noise of an area demonstration. Now the right-wing party demands a repetition – and the ARD promises consequences.
Total debacle for the ARD! The "summer interview" with Alice Weiel infuriates all political camps. In the end, the audience loses.
AfD co-chair Alice Weidel sometimes barely understood even the reporter's questions.
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