At “Markus Lanz”, FDP politician Linda Teuteberg criticized the handling of the Hamburg Islamist demo. Economist Gerhard Schick made serious allegations against several German politicians in the CumEx scandal.
“Caliphate is the solution”, “reason of state kills” and “dictatorship of opinion in Germany”: these were just three of the slogans that could be heard at the Islamist demonstration in Hamburg last Saturday. What was agreed upon in the discussion group: There is an acute need for action – not least from Interior Minister Nancy Faeser.
The guests:
Linda Teuteberg, FDP politicianVeit Medick, journalistGerhard Schick, economist
“The images we are dealing with here are disturbing,” stated Teuteberg. Similar slogans had already been heard at previous rallies, but these had now become more aggressive. “The slogans that are shouted there are clearly directed against the basic democratic order. There is nothing to gloss over about that.”
Medick: “Ms. Faeser, you are the state”
The Muslim Interaktiv association, which initiated the demonstration, is on the radar of the security authorities. “It is obvious that our free way of life and our constitution are being despised here,” she stated. Many of the Muslim refugees fled from countries where there is a caliphate – they were actually fleeing “Islamic fantasies of omnipotence”.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser was criticized. The journalist Veit Medick found it “particularly strange”: “The Interior Minister has called on the state to act with a hard hand. I would like to shout to her: Ms. Faeser, you are the state at this point. So please act!” Teuteberg also criticized the fact that the “Political Islamism Expert Group” has now been dissolved.
Teuteberg spoke of an urgent need for action, which was also evident in institutions such as the “Islamic Center Hamburg,” which she described as “the extended arm of Iran.” A ban on Muslim Interactive would first have to be examined in a constitutional state, but that would not stand in the way of greater police presence, identity checks and possible arrests at demonstrations. She was harsh on the demonstrators: “They don’t want to be part of Germany. They want to change Germany. That’s the problem.”
Accusations against Schäuble, Kubicki and Scholz
The second major topic block of the show was dedicated to the CumEx scandal. Here the economist Gerhard Schick made serious accusations against politicians who had done too little against this “tie crime” and even supported it.
Among other things, he criticized the former Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: “Not only did he do nothing to ensure that CumEx and CumCum were clarified. With a regulation from his ministry, he actively prevented the financial authorities in Germany from retrieving the illegal bank profits from CumCum. A bank gift, probably worth up to 20 billion euros.”
There was also criticism for the dual role of FDP politician Wolfgang Kubicki: As FDP Bundestag Vice President, he led a meeting on Schick’s CumEx application, but at the same time acted as a criminal defense lawyer for Hanno Berger, who has now been imprisoned because of the CumEx scandal.
The question here is which side a leading member of the German Bundestag actually stands on: on the side of the taxpayer who elected him or on the side of the tax cheat, according to the economist.
Schick: “I don’t believe Olaf Scholz’s memory gaps at all”
He also made major accusations against Hamburg’s former First Mayor and current Chancellor Olaf Scholz as well as the then Finance Senator Peter Tschentscher. He first outlined their meeting with the Warburg Bank. “There is a top politician who meets three times with a suspect who is being investigated by the public prosecutor and also calls him and gives him a tip,” he analyzed. “I find these conditions scandalous and I don’t believe Olaf Scholz’s lack of memory at all.”
Lanz objected that both Tschentscher and Scholz were two people he would never suspect of corruption. “I definitely see it that way too,” replied Schick, but explained: “Despite all the economic development that one is allowed to do, there has to be a limit where criminally relevant behavior is involved. In my opinion, this has been exceeded in Hamburg and therefore consequences must follow.”
He himself believes that this topic is not yet over. He hoped for further clarification from the Landesbanken and noted: “It is scandalous that no one from the Landesbanken has yet been brought to justice.” Send further: “We are only at the beginning of the legal process and I hope that we will be able to recover many billions of euros.”
