In 2019, the Kassel district president Walter Lübcke was shot dead by the right-wing extremist Stephan Ernst. The Hessian SPD now takes up the murder of the CDU politician in a tweet - together with photos of Hessian CDU politicians and a provocative headline.
A post by the Hesse SPD on social media caused outrage. With a view to the state parliament investigative committee into the murder of the Kassel district president Walter Lübcke, the SPD had distributed a black and white collage with photos of Hessian CDU politicians under the title "More than fifteen years of domestic political failure".
Among other things, several members of the Bundestag of the Union expressed outrage. This is the "dirtiest election campaign that Democrats have ever conducted," wrote the federal executive board member of the CDU, Serap Güler.
In its post, the Hesse SPD asked "Could the murder of Dr. Walter Lübcke have been prevented? The responsible interior ministers Bouffier, Rhein and Beuth were obviously overwhelmed with the political leadership of the LfV." LfV stands for State Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The collage shows, among other things, the incumbent Prime Minister Boris Rhein, Hesse's Interior Minister Peter Beuth and the former Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier, from the CDU.
Bouffier was a longtime companion of Lübcke - not only politically. "Walter Lübkcke was my friend. We were friends for over 40 years. I don't remember when we met for the first time, but I know it was in the Junge Union," he said in an interview with RTL / ntv Editor on the anniversary of the assassination declared.
The chairman of the Hessian CDU parliamentary group in the Lübcke investigation committee, Holger Bellino, called the social media post "tasteless and completely inappropriate". Most of the comments under the post published on Twitter also criticize the post. "How shabby can you be to campaign with the murder of Walther Lübcke"?, "But that's borderline now" or "this post is really bad" are the comments on the platform.
Lübcke was shot dead by right-wing extremist Stephan Ernst on the night of June 2, 2019 on the terrace of his house in the Kassel district. The state parliament investigation committee was set up in 2020 to investigate the role of the Hessian security authorities in the murder case.
