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“We Don’t Need Lessons in Democracy”: New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz SLAMS JD Vance – As German Government ARRESTS 6 Right-Wing Activists and Prevents their Travel

May 16, 2025

6 right-wing activists were arrested in Germany on their way to the “Remigration Summit” in Milano, Italy Saturday

 

The new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has again slammed the Trump administration for “interference” in German democracy on the same day 6 right-wing German activists were arrested for wrong-think and prevented from traveling to a conference in Milano, Italy.

Speaking to leftist newspaper “Die Zeit“, Merz criticized Vice-President JD Vance’s courageous pro-freedom speech at the Munich Security Conference and recent posts from Vance and SecState Marco Rubio accusing Germany of “tyranny in disguise” for using the sceret political police against the largest opposition party, the AfD.

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“Of course, we are not heading toward “tyranny,” as we hear from the USA”, Merz said. “Such statements must be firmly rejected. Germany was liberated from tyranny by the USA, and today Germany is stable, liberal, and democratic. We don’t need any lessons in democracy (from the USA). That’s why JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference was perceived by many, including myself, as interference.”

On May 9, the parting Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (Social Democrats) had used a trumped-up “dossier” containing no evidence of illegal activity to slander the lagrest opposition party in Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as “confirmed far-right”, leading the push to ban the party, fire its members from governent jobs and deny it basic parliamentary rights.

10 million Germans voted for the AfD in February. Under pressure from an AfD lawsuit and US Senate Intelligence Committee chair Sen. Tom Cotton, the German secret police had to retract the label and remove the press release from its website.

On the same day Merz claimed not to need “any lessons in democracy” from the Trump administration, 6 right-wing activists belonging to the Generation Identity movement were apprehended by German police at Munich airport and taken into custody to prevent them from traveling to a “Remigration Summit” in Milano, Italy taking place on Saturday. Two of the activists were even taken off a plane they had already boarded, indicating the orders came urgently at the request of the “Conservative” Christian Democrat government in the State of Bavaria.

Austrian GI co-chair Martin Sellner explained what happened:

The German police explained that the attendence of the patriotic activists at the “Remigration Summit” would potentially “damage the reputation of the Germany state” and banned them from leaving the country – just like during the Iron Curtain.

The GI activists have since been released, under the stipulation they do not travel to Austria, Switzerland or Italy until  Sunday. They have assured the Gateway Pundit they are alright.

Generation Identity is a patriotic right-wing youth movement founded in France 2012 to oppose mass migration and the loss of European cultural identity. It has been ruthessly pursured by European authorities, the French leaders imprisoned and the Greek Lamba symbol even banned as “terrorist” in Austria (which is used in the movie “300” and the video game “Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey”, for example). GI leader Martin Sellner has been banned from holding book readings in Switzerland and Germany.

The German authorities didn’t seem aware that arresting and restraining young people from traveling based on their politics could also “damage the reputation of the German state” – no matter what you think of “Generation Identity” and the “Remigration Summit”.

It sounds like you do “need some lessons in democracy”, Mr. Merz.

 

 

 

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