Hamburg: Protests disrupt AfD founder Lucke’s university lecture

Anti-fascist protesters led the opposition in opposition to the co-founding father of the right-wing AfD celebration as he back to paintings at Hamburg University. Following shouts of “Nazi pig,” Bernd Lucke turned into pressured to give up on his lecture.

Protests disrupted instructions at Hamburg University on Wednesday because the co-founding father of proper-wing birthday celebration Alternative for Germany (AfD) lower back to teaching for the primary time in five years.

Lucke became escorted into the building, in which he turned into purported to lecture on macroeconomics, by using police.

Students shouted “Nazi pig” and “Get lost” as Lucke entered the lecture corridor. Eventually, the economics professor became forced to surrender on his try to lecture and leave the building.

Students had been not the handiest ones who joined within the protest: protest group “Omas gegen Rechts” (“Grandmothers against the proper”) had been additionally present, armed with particularly-designed umbrellas.

The AfD, which has become the 0.33-biggest party in the German Bundestag in 2017, is Euroskeptic and has been dealing with criticism for its stance on immigration coverage and Islam.

An economist who immediately lost manage of AfD’s path

Lucke is a professor of economics at the northern German university, but he gave up his coaching position in 2013 when he shaped the proper-wing political birthday celebration, together with present-day leader Alexander Gauland.

An economics professor whose Euroskepticism changed into based on objections to the single foreign money, issues at the EU’s sovereign debt problems, and greater technical components of EU club, Lucke become fairly essential of the birthday celebration’s rapid shift to the right and its growing recognition on problems like immigration. Following a dispute with then-chief Frauke Petry, Lucke left the AfD in 2015, some years after forming it. He has seen that denounced numerous AfD policies and set up the much less excessive Liberal-Conservative Reform party, which has thus far didn’t win any seats in German elections.