BGroup photo with two men with members of the CDU in the Bundestag Philip Amto Need to explain. This picture circulated on the Internet shows Amthor at a horse festival between two men. One of them wore a T-shirt to express solidarity with the convicted and imprisoned Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck.
“If I noticed the label on the T-shirt, I certainly wouldn’t take this picture,” Amser said in a post on Instagram on Monday. The CDU politician said he could not be sure whether and to what extent the photos posted on Twitter were edited.
For German news organizations, it was initially impossible to clarify without a doubt whether this photo was tampered with.
Amthor told the German News Agency on Monday that many people asked him for a photo at the horse festival held in Boock in West Pomerania on Sunday. “I don’t know or know these two citizens and their backgrounds.”
On Instagram, Amthor explained: “In any case, as everyone knows, I am engaged in a defensive struggle with opponents of the Berlin constitutional state.” It is disturbing to put him in such a context, and to indicate “completely irrelevant”. Election”.
