Green parliamentary group shocked by report by Kreiswerke Main-Kinzig

No room for agitators

"There must be no room for heretics who divide society during the coronavirus pandemic," says Reiner Bousonville, Viola Haßdenteufel and Jakob Mähler. ‘Therefore, it is not comprehensible for us how Kreiswerke Main-Kinzig Imke Otto were able to portray Otto in her category ‘producer from here’.

Otto is presented there as a goldsmith. ‘What the Kreiswerke have not named, however, is that Imke Otto is the organiser of the ‘Querdenken 6051’ demonstrations and responsible for the ‘Alliance pro Grundgesetz’. Otto organized several demonstrations together with right-wing parties in and around Gelnhausen. The organisation is known for inciting against the coronavirus measures, spreading conspiracy theories and inciting hatred against entire groups of people.”

It is therefore all the more astonishing that the Kreiswerke Main-Kinzig, as a subsidiary of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, dedicate an entire article to Imke Otto: ‘The Main-Kinzig-Kreis emphasises, in all possible ways, that they oppose lateral thinking and the division of society. At the same time, Imke Otto, one of the leading lateral thinkers in the district, is promoting the Main-Kinzig district works.’ The efforts of the district around the circle-wide vaccination campaign also get a taste of ‘when a district-owned subsidiary advertises with anti-vaccine opponents’. ‘Jewellery with personality’ and the fact that the Kreiswerke are giving away a silversmith course at Imke Otto: ‘Here the Kreiswerke should distance themselves and end the competition.’

The group board of the Greens parliamentary group now calls for clarification from the top of the circle: ‘The responsible employees of the Kreiswerke and the new managing director Oliver Habekost must explain how this article came about, whether some people acted against better knowledge and how the report could remain undetected for so long on the Internet and in the Kreiswerke’s own magazine ‘STRÖMUNG’. It is clear that the Kreis must provide appropriate information here: “We expect precise reasons here and no statements that such a mistake will no longer happen and that the circle distances itself from Imke Otto’s statements. It is clearly too late for such a general statement", concludes Bousonville, Haßdenteufel and Mähler.