Safet Babic

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Safet Babic (born March 28, 1981 in Hanau ) is a German politician with Bosnian roots, who claims to have been naturalized in 1997. In 2016 he did not answer the question of whether he had given up his citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina in return. For the NPD , he runs as a candidate in European, Bundestag, Landtag and local elections. From June 2009 to September 2011 he was a member of Trier's city ​​council . The reactions of board members of the Young National Democrats ( JN ) to the acceptance of the Bosnian in their organization generated nationwide media coverage .

Political career

Babic's parents are from Bosnia. He therefore describes himself as a “European liberation nationalist of Bosnian origin”. Babic became active in 1998 as secretary of the Junge Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen (JLO) in Hesse and with the Young National Democrats . In March 2001 he ran for the NPD in local elections in Karben, Hesse, and was an author in the NPD party newspaper German Voice and the right-wing extremist magazine Signal (formerly Europa Vorn, now Nation24 ). He also became known as a speaker at JN rallies.

The scandal among the Young National Democrats

His admission to the JN, however, led to an initial scandal when, in addition to some management cadres from North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg, including the deputy JN state chairman Lars Käppler , the entire Saxon JN state board resigned from the federal organization. They justified their step as follows: Those who fight the multicultural society “cannot be multicultural themselves.” The JN federal chairman, Sascha Roßmüller, justified the step in a statement that attempts were made to “integrate positive elements into the national community .” The JN- Federal Managing Director spoke of Babic having an "extremely Nordic (s) appearance" and being "much more German than some of us."

Political engagement at the University of Trier

After starting his law studies at the University of Trier in 2001, Babic got involved in the Trier AStA and participated in strikes and protests, such as B. against the introduction of tuition fees . He kept quiet about his membership in the NPD and tried to win the trust of the left-wing scene in Trier with appropriate statements. After about half a year of activity, which Babic himself referred to as “time as a mole”, his membership was revealed.

In response to his "exposure", Babic founded the "Freedom Social List" (FSL) at Trier University. While he narrowly failed in the elections to the Trier student parliament in December 2002 , he managed to move in at the end of 2003 , which brought him nationwide attention. Babic's entry into the student parliament was reported in, among others, Spiegel and Frankfurter Rundschau . In several applications, he called on the AStA of the University of Trier to deal solely with university politics, and threatened with a fine of 250,000 euros. At the same time, however, he demanded statements from the AStA, for example on the air raids on Dresden in February 1945 and on the surrender of the German Wehrmacht on May 8, 1945 - in Babic's view a "day of defeat". Babic's lawsuit failed both before the administrative court in Trier and the higher administrative court in Koblenz.

Further party career with NPD and NHB

Babic became the spokesman for education policy and a member of the NPD state executive committee for Rhineland-Palatinate as well as deputy chairman of the National Democratic University Association (NHB). For the NPD, he unsuccessfully took 21st place in the 2004 European elections and fourth in the 2005 Bundestag election on the state list in Rhineland-Palatinate and as a direct candidate in the Trier constituency. The assumption of party offices and the nomination of Babic as a candidate in elections again led to considerable tensions within the NPD. In January 2004 the Prignitz-Ruppin District Association separated from the NPD. The district chairman Mario Schulz , who is also the NPD state chairman in Brandenburg, said: "Since the NPD has apparently abandoned the principle 'German is who is German blood ', it has lost its right to exist and joins the enemies of our people." With Schulz, four other board members of the Berlin-Brandenburg regional association of the NPD broke away from the party, including the Wittstock city councilor Mathias Wirth, and founded the New Order Movement (BNO).

Babic's lecture on “National Democratic University Policy in the Federal Republic” at the Ring of Freedom Students (RFS) and the Gothia fraternity in Vienna in March 2006 sparked nationwide discussions in Austria about the links between the RFS and the right-wing extremist scene.

For the 2006 state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate , Babic was on the list at number 2 of the NPD, ahead of René Rodriguez-Teufer , Sascha Wagner and Christian Hehl .

In the municipal elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2009 , Babic was able to enter the Trier city council as the top candidate of the NPD. On September 2, 2010, Babic was the only member of the Trier City Council to vote against the formal revocation of the honorary citizenship of Adolf Hitler and Bernhard Rust . He also demanded that Konrad Adenauer be deprived of his honorary citizenship because he had prevented the reunification of Germany after the end of the Second World War . On May 18, 2009, he was involved in a brawl that attacked three people who had previously torn down NPD election posters. One person was beaten and kicked while lying on the ground, suffered a severe concussion and had to be hospitalized. Babic and three like-minded people were temporarily arrested. On November 2, 2009, the Trier public prosecutor's office announced that it would bring charges against the Trier district court for dangerous bodily harm and other incidents of violating the Assembly Act and incitement to hatred. The district court Trier was Babic 22 December 2010 guilty of having participated in the beating, and convicted him of aggravated assault to imprisonment of seven months, suspended. The judgment became final in August 2011 after the Federal Court of Justice rejected Babic's appeal for a review. As a result, the city council of Trier ruled Babic on September 22, 2011 in a non-public special session. As Lord Mayor Klaus Jensen announced , the decision was unanimous. The council also decided to implement the decision immediately. Babic appealed against this decision to the Trier Administrative Court. On May 8, 2012, the Trier Administrative Court decided that Babic's expulsion from the city council was legitimate. The text of the judgment states that the plaintiff forfeited the integrity required for a council member because he practiced vigilante justice and left the field of permissible political opinion-fighting. With the judgment of January 21, 2015, the Federal Administrative Court overturned this decision - previously confirmed by the OVG Koblenz. It justified its judgment by stating that it would not be sufficient for an exclusion if the conviction affected the reputation of the city council or if there was a risk that citizens would lose confidence in politics. Rather, the functionality of the Council must be specifically endangered as a result of the crime. The exclusion was not based on this fact.

On April 25, 2016, Babic was sentenced to five months' imprisonment on probation by the Trier district court for sedition . The court considered it proven that Babic had degraded asylum seekers and incited hatred at a rally in February 2014. His defense attorney Nicole Schneider had demanded acquittal because his statements did not refer to foreigners, but to the counter-demonstrators, and announced an appeal.

Since December 2006 Babic has been deputy state chairman of the NPD Rhineland-Palatinate and its press spokesman.

In addition to the NPD, Babic was also involved in the now banned aid organization for national political prisoners and their relatives (HNG).

media

On a video of the NPD Trier, in which u. a. Babic called for a demonstration against Trier's asylum policy in front of the Jägerkaserne , which was followed by national media coverage and a small shit storm on the Trier NPD's Facebook page. In the video, the abbreviation " 444 ", which is often used in the right-wing extremist scene, and the unveiled variant " Deutschland den Deutschen " are used several times by all four protagonists. In addition to ironic and sarcastic comments, parodies of the video (including by Jan Böhmermann ) appeared within a short time and the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on a humorous reply letter from an SPD politician with enclosed condoms. Two months later, Oliver Kalkofe also took up the video in a parody, so that it remained a topic.

In December 2015, a photo appeared on social media that presumably shows Babic eating a kebab. Within a few hours, the photo was shared many times on a Facebook page that Safet Babic would like to nominate for the German Comedy Prize.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Britta Stuff: How the son of a guest worker became an NPD functionary . In: DER SPIEGEL . No. 36/2016 , September 3, 2016 ( spiegel.de ).
  2. ↑ Rolf Seydewitz: For some NPDs, Trier Safet Babic is not German enough. In: Trierischer Volksfreund . July 23, 2013, accessed December 11, 2015 .
  3. ↑ The Trier NPD deputy and his well-known lawyer: No verdict in the trial against Babic. In: Trierischer Volksfreund . Retrieved March 23, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Tim Schulze: When a Nazi eats a doner kebab. In: Stern . December 8, 2015, accessed December 8, 2015 .
  5. ↑ AStA of the University of Trier also wins before the Higher Administrative Court. (No longer available online.) Free association of student bodies , February 11, 2005, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on August 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fzs.de
  6. ^ NPD functionary gives a lecture in Vienna , article in the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance .
  7. ↑ Preliminary final result on the website of the city of Trier .
  8. ↑ Injured in right-wing extremist brawl. In: Trierischer Volksfreund . September 15, 2009, accessed August 15, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Trier public prosecutor's office brings charges of dangerous bodily harm and other offenses to the criminal chamber of the Trier district court ( memento of the original from May 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cms.justiz.rlp.de
  10. ↑ Court sentenced NPD functionary to suspended sentence. In: Trierischer Volksfreund , December 22, 2010.
  11. ↑ Exclusion from the Trier City Council legal. ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Ministry of Justice Rhineland-Palatinate , 23 May 2012 (press release). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.mjv.rlp.de
  12. ↑ http://www.bverwg.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilung.php?jahr=2015&nr=2
  13. ↑ NPD politician sentenced to suspended sentence. In: Focus , April 25, 2016.
  14. ↑ Incitement to the people: suspended sentence for Trier NPD state vice Babic. In: Trierischer Volksfreund . Retrieved April 26, 2016 .
  15. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxNliTQ5lg
  16. ↑ nsa: Germany laughs at right-wing extremists. In: 20 minutes . August 3, 2015, accessed August 4, 2015 .
  17. ↑ Jürgen Klöckner: This embarrassing video of the NPD Trier is better than any satire. In: The Huffington Post , August 1, 2015.
  18. ↑ a b Michael Schmitz: NPD propaganda video becomes a laughing stock - Update: Well over 120,000 views. In: Trierischer Volksfreund , August 1, 2015.
  19. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7tLr3mnlAs
  20. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsN_JA_wXmo
  21. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7DDlLUf0rY
  22. ↑ How a local SPD politician reacts to an NPD video. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 3, 2015.
  23. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E_fnTPA2x0
personal data
SURNAME Babic, Safet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NPD)
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau