10 thoughts on “What Really Happened to Frank Magnitz in Bremen?”

1. I wish, the MDR (ARD‘s branch in Eastern Germany) had made the same careful analysis of the „Hase, du bleibst hier“ video from the Antifa Zeckenbiss Twitter channel, that was used to claim that right-wing mobs were chasing foreigners in downtown Chemnitz last summer.

2. reward of €3,000

   That’s it.??

   Don’t immigrant families get this amount each month from welfare benefits?

   I imagine most people will think it is not worth the risk.

3. We are obviously dealing here with particularly nasty attempt of a suicide by Mr. Magnitz. An educated guess is that he repeatedly banged his head against the concrete surface in order to achieve life threatening injuries that would eventually killed him. And just by sheer bad luck passer by noticed what’s Mr. Magnitz is doing to himself and called ambulance. Of course this whole thing happened because Mr. Magnitz wanted to place some guilt on his political enemies who just week before didn’t caused explosion in one of AFD’s offices. That was just some mishandling of explosive devices. Similar suicide was attempted couple of weeks earlier when man attempted to kill himself by driving his car into a crowded bus stop. He didn’t succeed either. You have to give it to those Germans, they are certainly innovative in ways to end themselves, although clearly unsuccessful.

4. The glaring question for me is, if it wasn’t an attempted murder, what was it? The media point out there was no assault committed when he was actually on the ground, but how did he get the injuries to his head, and why did the two men assault him on film when he was standing?

   I can empathize with the media correcting details that the afD reported incorrectly, but it is amazing to me the police and the media would discount the charge of attempted murder before they even have the suspects in custody and investigate their circumstances. Actually, at this stage of the investigation, unless there is some charge of police indifference or neglect of duty, nobody at all should be making statements. I mean, there is nothing except speculation, and in an individual case, speculation is uninformative and uninteresting.

   If I were the AfD, I would be homing in on exactly why, at this early stage of the investigation, the police are already discounting motive.

5. The video is clear evidence of a vicious assault on Magnitz, a group of three with one attacker clearly striking Magnitz on the head with some force. I would think with a small club or even a heavy spanner. Was it attempted murder? who knows intent until the culprits are caught, but it was targeted, deliberate and not for purpose of robbery.

   I was amazed at the tone of the German TV report, their outrage was not at a violent attack on a elected official, but that the details of the attack, which the victim can’t remember, might be incorrect. No interest in exploring who might do this.

6. Unfortunately, this case was poorly handled by the media pros of the AfD, if ever they do have that, which I doubt. How can Mr. Magnitz release himself from hospital two days after a supposedly “lethal” attack and then pose to TV cameras with a smile on his face? The party should have locked him in for some weeks with dramatized health reports, true or not.
   The result of it in public opinion will be : oh, come on, can’t have been a very vicious attack.

   • Very good point.

7. Interesting how the reporter says they will only report on what they know for sure then proceed to trash the AfD’s version of the event. This is CNN/MSNBC style reporting.

8. So, people are to report their tips to the ‘Police Tip Portal Page’..

   Would this be the same page people must use to report moslem rapists?

   I wonder if the police integrate this page to the database of ‘right-wing’ citizens?

   This would be another example of that admirable German organisation and effeciency since it would save the police time by having the names of the moslem hating and AfD loving ‘tipsters’ added automatically to the database.

9. I stopped the video roughly 4:30 minutes in, because that was enough lies and propaganda for one day.
   1) when someone tries as hard as the newslady to establish she’s saying the truth right at the beginning – such a person is almost always lying
   2) there are as good as 2-3 cameras on every corner and the investigators work with the one footage that doesn’t show anything?
   3) since when do you get a massive, bleeding skull-indantation from just falling to the ground?
   4) the general dismissive tone towards the AfD
   5) “after two days the media are still full of it” – compared to every minor “racist” attack towards migrants making headlines for weeks on end
   No thank you. I’d rather stick to my own experience, a “myth”, as the newslady called it, that this kind of injury doesn’t happen from simply falling on the pavement.

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