"The memorial is meant to protest the CDU's alleged accommodation of racist politics and warns against its potential collaboration with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). Lubcke, a local CDU leader in the state of Hesse, was shot dead by a right-wing extremist and AfD supporter in 2019 after he had become a hate figure for Germany's far-right at the height of Germany's refugee crisis. At town hall meeting in 2015, he made a speech defending government policy on taking in Syrian refugees."
"Exploitation or commemoration? The statue of Walter Lubcke has been erected on a small patch of public ground next to the CDU building, along with a bench and an information board with an audio feature that tells the story of Lubcke's life in German, English and Spanish. The local authority in Berlin has given permission for the memorial to remain in place for two years. The CDU headquarters did not respond to a DW request for comment on the memorial."
The Center for Political Beauty placed a life-size bronze statue of Walter Lübcke outside the CDU's Konrad Adenauer building in Berlin to protest perceived accommodation of racist politics and warn against cooperation with the far-right AfD. Walter Lübcke, a CDU local leader in Hesse, was shot dead in 2019 by a right-wing extremist after defending government refugee policy at a 2015 town hall meeting. The memorial includes a bench and an information board with audio in German, English and Spanish, and has local permission to remain for two years. Prominent CDU figures reacted angrily.
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