Now you are protesting here. Available in yellow vests on the lawn in front of the Reichstag, declare their solidarity with the insurgents in Paris and call on passersby to join. For the Curious, you have brought additional to the West. A comrade-in-arms, calls to occupy the Reichstag, another calls for “Revolution!”. The word leader around strutting with the French flag and proclaimed: “you must be mad!”

What is the guy not mentioned: With the objectives of the French movement, the Berlin yellow West have little in common. The regular protests on the square of the Republic are organized by rich citizens. The leader of a group called “Stateless”, which is observed since years ago from the protection of the Constitution. Your word leader is a former NPD squad, was in for attempted murder several years in prison.

Rüdiger Hoffmann the man. He is regarded as an enterprising figure in the scene from Empire citizens and other conspiracy theorists. Hoffmann believes that Germany was occupied by foreign powers, the Federal Republic of Germany only one company. Over the Internet, he calls on his followers the ability to act of the German Reich. Hoffmann also warned of “subhumanen peoples”, which would be sent to overrun Germany.

The Protest on the previous Saturday, the police counted about 100 Yellow jackets. It will soon be much more, promises Rüdiger Hoffmann. The qualified financial merchant lives in the vicinity of Wittenburg, two and a half hours drive North-West of Berlin. He also regularly performs with the yellow West.

time and again in court

In prison, Hoffmann, was, because he had organised in the 1990s, an attack of Right-wing extremist on a home for asylum seekers. In this, Molotov Cocktails were thrown. The district court sentenced him for attempted murder, to three and a half years in prison. Hoffmann, who at the time still bore the last name Klasen, called the process a “political show trial”, he had been just accessory. He has suffered through the time in prison a “prison trauma”, was then due for retirement because of incapacity.

later on he was several times in court, in February 2018, he sat briefly in the JVA Moabit, because he had not appeared to a trial date. The protection of the Constitution says, in Berlin trailer were “Stateless”-before the court regularly by “interference, scramble, and according to strong verbal attacks”, some of them were violent.

Not only in Berlin, notorious

in his hometown of Rüdiger Hoffmann is considered to be a burden. However, the municipality of Wittenburg has learned with the years to fight back. So he can preach at his rallies on the marketplace, at least from the town hall gallery, the municipal administration of the two staircases, each with Fences, fixed with steel chains. Because pendant Hoff drew’s during the day, through the town hall, and employees have harassed, was set up at the entrance is also a security gate.

On the Lawn in front of the Reichstag in Berlin, the rich citizens want to hold on this Saturday, a vigil in February, major protests are expected to follow.

Once again, he promised help from Moscow

It would be the first attempt of Hoffmann, in Berlin, a Revolution. Six years ago, he called to go to mass “in front of the Reichstag building, to the evacuation of the German Bundestag to enforce”. At the time, he had flown in advance to Moscow, announced to his followers from there, via Video, the Russian Federation would support their movement, the local Ministry of foreign Affairs was already “enabled to liberation”. The storm of his followers did at the time. In the following years, his actions failed. Why he thinks that it will now be in yellow vests-to Outfit?

The phone is Hoffmann-friendly. He says that he had not known back then just how global the power of his opponents. This had changed: “The signs of a storm brewing.” Even Sahra wagenknecht, and followers of their “Stand up”movement may occur in yellow vests, holding Hoffmann for “a joke and whining”.

he sees as an Imperial citizen, he prefers the term, “nature-connected environmental activist”. Actually dealt Hoffmann several times with environmental issues: He believed, for example, that wind turbines generate, in truth, not even electricity, but on the contrary, only turning because they are driven with electricity. All part of the big conspiracy.

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