Well, the Dutch government says similar things. On the other hand,
extreme right-wing figures like Wilders denounce the protests and call
the army to intervene.
In general, there is a wide-spread tendency of governments and
"left-wing" forces to denounce protesters against the Lockdown policy as
"Nazis" etc. But this simply wrong.
A recently published study on the anti-lockdown protests in Germany
(which have seen some of the largest in Europe) asked people whom they
did vote for at the last election. The result was 21% Green Party, 17%
LINKE, 14% the right-wing AfD. Other parties got less support.
This study has been reported in all the major bourgeois newspapers
(which are unisono pro-lockdown). See for example
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/studie-zu-corona-protesten-wen-die-querdenker-waehlen-17085343.html
<https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/studie-zu-corona-protesten-wen-die-querdenker-waehlen-17085343.html>
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article221812060/Corona-21-Prozent-der-Querdenker-waehlten-die-Gruenen.html
<https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article221812060/Corona-21-Prozent-der-Querdenker-waehlten-die-Gruenen.html>
https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2020-12/querdenken-bewegung-bundestagswahl-gruene-linke-afd-studie
<https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2020-12/querdenken-bewegung-bundestagswahl-gruene-linke-afd-studie>
More generally, the protests against the lockdown are a global
phenomena. See the last days in Lebanon, see the Ultra-Orthodox Jews in
Israel, and so on.
It helps no one to slander all these protests as "fascist".
Am 27.01.2021 um 17:05 schrieb Richard Modiano:
According to a good comrade based in Amsterdam the people protesting
the lockdown are by large rightists. In answer to my quarry she wrote,
"They're mainly neo-Nazi instigated and backed by a brain-dead swell
of covid-deniers, but the underlying fermentation is that folks have
had enough of government edicts in fits and starts - everywhere."
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