Hans-Georg Maaßen sparked with a Tweet by a debate in the network. He compared the German media with the GDR press.
Berlin – The former the protection of the Constitution President Hans-Georg Maaßen has triggered on Tuesday night with a Tweet a fierce debate on the Internet. Maaßen shared a Link to an article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper with the Heading: “In German cities, the majority of society looks forward to your end”. It reads: “Frankfurt-on-Main, Offenbach, Heilbronn, Sindelfingen – in these and other cities Germans without a migration background, only the largest group, but not an absolute majority.” Maaßen wrote: “For me, the NZZ is such a thing as “Western television”.”
Maaßen receives heavy criticism
the 56 has been criticised-Year-old greatly, and immediately. The Green politician Volker Beck said: “We have, therefore, in their view, the estimated Mr Maassen, Germany’s censorship & state-controlled media like in the GDR? Have I understood you correctly, that the FDGO (Anm.: free democratic basic order), you should protect as the protection of the Constitution President, in your opinion, was already out of power?“
Maaßen answer Beck and wrote: “We have too many Relotiusse.” He played on the former mirror Reporter Claas Relotius, was fired because in part of counterfeit articles, and a fierce debate triggered. The Green politician said: “Bad journalism is clearly something Else than the category of “Western television”/DDR-media.”
We have too many Relotiusse.
— Hans-Georg Maaßen (@HGMaassen) 9. July 2019
Ex-CDU General Secretary: “”values,”Union loses completely the orientation”
The former CDU General Secretary Ruprecht Polenz said: “A former President of the constitutional protection compares the German media, with the SED-unit press. So far, only the nationalist-nationalist AfD and Pegida “lying press roared”. The so-called “values”Union loses completely the orientation.”
Week of a certain Hans-Georg Maaßen in the past year, the headlines – until his deposition by Horst Seehofer. Now he is thinking about a career in politics.
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