the newly elected federal spokeswoman for the Green Youth, Sarah-Lee Heinrich, follows suit Threats back from the public for a few days. After the “death threats and threats of violence” it is now a matter of doing everything for your safety, said the outgoing spokesman for the youth organization, Georg Kurz, on Monday when asked. Sarah-Lee Heinrich does not want to give any interviews in the coming days and does not want to appear in public. Several media had previously reported.
A “shit storm” arose around Heinrich on social media over the weekend. It was about several years old tweets by today’s 20-year-olds. The new federal spokeswoman for the Green Youth wrote on Twitter on Sunday: “I just became aware of a tweet in which my account in 2015 commented” Heil “under a tweet with a swastika”. You can’t remember ever posting such a tweet – but that doesn’t make it any better. “That was extremely stupid and inappropriate.”
Heinrich emphasized that she was part of an anti-fascist youth organization. “This tweet in no way reflects my position. I’m really sorry to have ever posted such a tweet. ”The tweet has since been deleted.
Sarah-Lee Heinrich and Timon Dzienus were elected as the new federal spokeswoman for the Green Youth on Saturday. The social science student Heinrich received 93.84 percent of the votes at the federal congress of the youth organization in Erfurt.
Even before she commented on the “Heil” tweet, Heinrich complained on Twitter that since her election rights had been trying to raise shitstorms against her. “I guess they are jittery about a black, left-wing woman.” There were screenshots of old tweets from her, “some of which are vulgar or offensive”.
“What is deliberately removed from the screenshots of tweets: They are from 2014/2015,” she criticized. “I was 13/14 years old then.” She demanded: “Measure me and like to criticize my positions and my political work. I am not going to explain myself to everything that I once thought and said when I was 14, I do not ask anyone to do that ”.