Left-wing extremist Lina E.has been found guilty in a German court of leading a series of violent attacks on neo-Nazis. The sprawling trial has sparked controversy and fears of extremism driven by leftist ideology.

The male defendants were greeted on Wednesday with a huge round of applause, many of them waving and smiling to friends and relatives in the courtroom. They also then screened their faces from photographers with folders, one of which had the message "Free All Antifas" taped (in English) on its cover. When Lina E. herself was brought in a few minutes later, the applause was even louder and longer, with virtually the whole of the gallery that wasn't press standing up.

Hell yeah

    • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      The PTB (Party of Labor of Belgium) got 13,8% in the 2019 elections and in recent polls they're as high as 20%. It's a demsoc party, so not that exciting, but overall the political climate of Wallonia is simply nowhere near as bad as the rest of Europe with the exception of Ireland.

      The most recent poll (from March):

      PS (Socdems) - 25,5%

      MR (Conservatives) - 18,5%

      PTB (Demsoc) - 17,6%

      Ecolo (Green libs) - 12,8%

      LE (libs) - 11,1%

      DéFI (libs) - 4,9%

      Others - 9,6%

      Notice something? No big fash party. Flanders otoh is very fash and has been that way for over 20 years.

      As for the why? As I understand it, Wallonia is relatively poor as to my knowledge it has been screwed over hard by de-industrialization, which also means a pretty high average unemployment. Is that enough to make it avoid the bullshit most of Europe goes through? Who knows, but somehow it just works differently over there.

      Edit: The fash got 3,7% in 2019 and lost their only seat in parliament it seems. They had 4,9% in 2014.