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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAngela Merkel’s Deputy Flips the Bird at Neo-Nazi Protestors
http://time.com/4455685/sigmar-gabriel-middle-finger-neo-nazis/?quality=75&strip=color&w=1100
Sigmar Gabriel was visiting the city of Salzgitter for an election campaign event
Footage has emerged of Germanys vice-chancellor Sigmar Gabriel giving the middle finger to a group of far-right protestors in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany last Friday.
The Social Democrat politician was visiting the city of Salzgitter for an election campaign event when he was accosted by a group of masked protesters holding banners bearing the slogan Traitor, AFP reports.
Gabriel has publicly condemned his father as a die-hard Nazi in the past. This is referenced by the Neo Nazis in the footage, who tell him Your father loved his country, and what do you do? You destroy it, reports The Guardian. The Social Democrat Party has confirmed that the video, posted on Facebook by a youth group linked to the neo-Nazi NPD, is authentic.
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Angela Merkel’s Deputy Flips the Bird at Neo-Nazi Protestors (Original Post)
steve2470
Aug 2016
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whistler162
(11,155 posts)1. Hope he doesn't get into tropuble
with PETA for flipping a bird!
PunkinPi
(4,875 posts)2. Photo & Video
Photo source and video link - https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/germanys-vice-chancellor-flips-the-bird-at-neo-nazi-demonstr?utm_term=.vpAAm4BR5#.mn01mbnDW
ETA - link
cwydro
(51,308 posts)3. Lol. Good for him.
Funny how the neo Nazis are afraid to show their faces...
PunkinPi
(4,875 posts)4. Yep, cowards, much like the KKK in their hoods. nt