The CDU put up election posters in Arabic in Leipzig. Someone pulled them down or stole them overnight

The posters were aimed at the municipal elections, which will take place in Saxony at the same time as the elections to the European Parliament on June 9. The CDU promises, among other things, “greater security and order in our residence”. On the opposite side, the posters were displayed in German.

The city’s CDU organization strongly condemned the attack on its election campaign and spoke of “unprecedented vandalism”. But political rivals accuse the Christian Democrats of a “double standard” when they say that on the one hand they are seeking the votes of voters from the immigrant community and on the other hand they are promising a “turnaround” in migration policy.

“How come someone put up posters in a foreign language in a German city, especially in a bastion of foreign crime?” asked Bild.

When asked by the paper, the head of the Leipzig CDU, Andreas Nowak, said that his party designed the mentioned posters together with entrepreneurs who have immigrant roots. They then posted them themselves in their streets.

“We are also reaching out to the Arabic and Turkish speaking residents of this neighborhood and making it clear what we expect,” Nowak said. According to him, people are turning to the CDU because they do not agree with the policies of the city government made up of representatives of the Greens and other left-wing parties.

In the meantime, a sharp discussion broke out on social networks. For example, the local representative of the Greens, Jürgen Kasek CDU, injected “a whole new level of falsehood” because – as he stated – the posters in Arabic and Turkish appeared only in a neighborhood where people with an immigrant background live.

According to the newspaper Bild, it is mainly about one dreaded Eisenbahnstrasse near the main station. In 2018, the authorities declared it as one of the first urban zones in Germany where weapons, including knives, baseball bats or tear gas sprays, may not be carried in public, but this was said to have had no effect anyway.

Nowak behind the demolition, or by stealing the posters, he sees a targeted attack by left-wing extremists, as the posters of other parties were left untouched. The case is being investigated by the police as a criminal offense of damage to another’s property.