US EditionProtesters Drown Out Live Interview with AfD Leader Alice Weidel
BERLIN, GERMANY, JUL 20 – Activists from the Centre for Political Beauty used loudspeakers to disrupt the interview with AfD co-leader Alice Weidel during ARD's summer series, with 25 protesters involved.
- A live open-air interview with AfD co-leader Alice Weidel was drowned out by a protest in Berlin's government quarter on Sunday.
- The protest, organised by an NGO called the Centre for Political Beauty, involved twenty-five people using loudspeakers and anti-AfD chants to disrupt the broadcast.
- Weidel acknowledged the difficult conditions during the interview and posted clips on X, claiming the protest was orchestrated against the AfD by an NGO.
- An ARD spokesperson stated that the broadcaster would analyze the incident and implement measures to prevent disruptions during future interviews, while Weidel remarked that she was experiencing feedback in her earpiece, making it difficult to hear.
- The incident raised questions about how to balance protest rights and media coverage, while polls show AfD holds around 25% support, narrowly behind the CDU at 27%.
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They took action against an AfD politician on live broadcast. They tried to drown out Alice Weidel's answers with whistles and noise.
The interview with Alice Weill is a shame for the ARD - if you only require incompetence. The left sturgeons are allowed to shoot the whole conversation and the station does nothing. Instead, there are no more quirky sayings - this ARD has absolutely no right to exist anymore.
An open-air interview with AfD party leader Alice Weiel almost went under in the noise of an area demonstration. Now the right-wing party demands a repetition – and the ARD promises consequences.
Total debacle for the ARD! The "summer interview" with Alice Weiel infuriates all political camps. In the end, the audience loses.
AfD co-chair Alice Weidel sometimes barely understood even the reporter's questions.
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