CDU Party Headquarters under Siege in Göttingen
A 1.5m wall obstructed the route to the CDU headquarters in Göttingen on Monday morning, raising eyebrows among members. The authorities suspect this was a politically driven act, and the state protection agency is probing the matter.
Posters emblazoned with "Closed" and "Owing to your warmongering and racist isolationist policies" adorned the fresh barricade and the existing one, according to a party insider during an interview with FFH.
"Let's not yield to such tactics"
"The latest action against the CDU commercial office and the constituency offices of the Göttingen MPs aims to significantly disrupt the functioning of democratic parties. The perpetrators are not engaging in intellectual discourses, they're not participating in democratic debates, they aim to provoke. Instead of presenting substantiated arguments, they're erecting not just metaphorical barriers, but physical ones. This deeply antidemocratic act deserves our condemnation and encourages us to assert even more resolutely: We won't succumb to such tactics," expressed state parliamentarian Carina Hermann in a statement.
Graffiti incident from early in the year
The authorities have cleared away the wall and the posters, and they're investigating on suspicion of extortion and property damage. At the beginning of the year, there was a graffiti attack on the CDU headquarters on Reinhäuser Landstraße – the vibrant paint stains still decorate the façade today.
- The general-news of the physical obstruction at the CDU headquarters in Göttingen appears to be an extension of antidemocratic tactics, as Carina Hermann suggests, connecting it to the earlier crime-and-justice incident of the graffiti attack on their headquarters.
- The recent politics-related conflict at the CDU headquarters seems to be part of a broader trend, extending beyond intellectual discourses and democratic debates, reaching into actual property damage and general-news making, as demonstrated by the repeated incidents against the CDU offices.
