Serge Menga

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Serge Menga (2018)

Serge Nathan Dash Menga Nsibu (born 1977 ) is a German political activist and DJ (stage name DJ Nathan Dash ) of Congolese descent. His criticism of the behavior of immigrants in Germany and the politics of the federal government in the context of the refugee crisis brought him media and politics. Since then, he has regularly published videos on the Internet expressing his political views and speaking at demonstrations.

Life

At the age of five, Menga and his family moved from the Congo (then Zaïre) to Europe. After working in France , Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands , he came to Germany at the age of eleven. Two years later, his family decided to return to their homeland because his father saw no professional prospects for himself. Menga, however, did not want to go back, was placed with a German foster family by the youth welfare office and was able to stay in Moers . He graduated from school, trained as an energy electronics technician at RAG and worked for a few years as a professional DJ , then as a truck driver .

Serge Menga is married and has four children. He lives in Essen-Rüttenscheid .

Political activities

Menga became known when he published a video on Facebook that addressed the sexual assault on New Year's Eve 2015/16 and had over seven million hits. He had worked as a DJ in a Cologne club on New Year's Eve and only found out about the attacks in Cologne and other German cities two days later. Menga explained in the video that he was happy to be in Germany and had no understanding for those migrants who couldn't behave: “Just pack your clothes and go home. Where there is bombing and mistreatment. ”The video went viral , and Menga was interviewed by various major media outlets.

After the publication, Essen's Lord Mayor Thomas Kufen met with Menga, condemned the incidents in Cologne, called for prevention in child and youth work to be strengthened and suggested that Menga should act as an intermediary . A few days later, the then SPD chairman Sigmar Gabriel Menga also invited to a meeting.

After another confrontation between the police and violent immigrants in Cologne on New Year's Eve 2016/17 , Menga defended the police against accusations of racism and praised their approach. In May 2017, he published another video in which he played the role of a criminal asylum seeker mocking the German rule of law. The video sparked controversial reactions. Some users saw it as a bitter parody of the conditions in Germany, others were shocked and criticized Menga. In another video a day later, he stated that the first video was a provocation.

Menga occurs since 2016 as a speaker at demonstrations, on which next to people from the middle-class range also rights and extreme right to participate. He took part in Pegida NRW, a demonstration directed against Chancellor Angela Merkel in Hamburg and a demonstration against the Network Enforcement Act in Cologne .

Party politics

In mid-2016, Menga submitted an application for membership to Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), but was not accepted. Menga had previously been a CDU member for half a year . The Essen AfD chairman Stefan Keuter said that Menga had been offered sustaining membership, as is customary in the party, because they wanted to check new members first. The skin color did not play a role. During the 2017 federal election campaign, Menga appeared as a guest speaker at an AfD event in Osnabrück .

In July 2017 Menga was one of the founding members of the small party Das Haus Deutschland and became its federal chairman. In December 2017, he left the party without giving a reason.

elections

Menga ran as an individual candidate in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in May 2017 , and received 0.94 percent of the votes in his state electoral district of Essen III . In the federal election in September Menga ran as a single candidate for the Essen III constituency and received 0.77 percent of the vote. As a democrat, he must now congratulate the AfD and, according to Menga after the general election, he hopes that the party is now working on being a "serious alternative in politics."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Silke Hoock: Serge Menga, a former refugee from the Congo, wants to get involved in state politics. In: welt.de . December 26, 2016, accessed January 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Scandal Night in Cologne: "There is a reason why we are here": Man has a message about Cologne - Video. In: Focus Online . January 8, 2016, accessed January 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Serge Menga's angry speech , SAT 1, January 11, 2016.
  4. ^ After attacks in Cologne: Serge Menga speaks to many people from the soul , RTLnext, January 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ Lars Riedel: Serge Menga's Message , Informer Magazine, 2016.
  6. ↑ Lord Mayor meets Serge Menga , Press and Communications Office of the City of Essen on essen.de, January 11, 2016.
  7. ↑ After an angry speech about Cologne Gabriel receives Facebook star Serge Menga , Kölnische Rundschau, January 21, 2016.
  8. ↑ Speak plain text! In: spiegel.tv. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Serge Menga: Clear words on the action of the police in Cologne. In: Focus Online . January 5, 2017, accessed January 23, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Man shocks in VIDEO: “We shit on your laws and your culture” , Wochenblick, May 15, 2017.
  11. ↑ DerWesten - derwesten.de: “Parents against violence”: What is really behind the initiative . ( derwesten.de [accessed on July 3, 2018]).
  12. ↑ andreas speit: Anti-Merkel demo in Hamburg canceled: Concerned citizens have time off . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 14, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed July 3, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Manuel Böhnke: Demonstrations on the Neumarkt. In: Solinger Tageblatt. June 3, 2018, accessed July 4, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Kristian Stemmler: Black Power with a difference , young world , April 11, 2018.
  15. ^ Andi Goral: Demonstrations at the Alter Markt: Vera Lengsfeld hits counter-demonstrators in the face , report-K, April 15, 2018.
  16. ↑ Marcus Schymiczek: Facebook star Serge Menga wanted to join the AfD , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, July 27, 2016.
  17. ↑ Serge Menga wants to go to the state parliament , SAT 1, February 17, 2017.
  18. ↑ Wilfried Hinrichs: AfD rally with a banana and a bare bottom. In: noz.de . July 27, 2017, accessed January 23, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Nazis, bare ass and a banana - Serge Menga from Essen provokes at AfD appearance. In: derwesten.de. July 28, 2017. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  20. ↑ DerWesten - derwesten.de: Is Serge Menga now making common cause with the citizens of the Reich? Facebook video leaves questions . ( derwesten.de [accessed on July 3, 2018]).
  21. ^ The House of Germany Federal Association. Retrieved July 3, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Daniel Schreckenberg: Deporting criminal refugees: Serge Menga from Essen wants to enter the state parliament with plain language , DerWesten, January 11, 2017.
  23. ↑ Linda Schreiber: First Essen, then all of Germany? Facebook star Serge Menga is happy about 600 votes in the state elections , DerWesten, May 16, 2017.
  24. ↑ State election 2017 - The State Returning Officer informs: Final result for: 67 Essen III , wahlresults.nrw.de. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
  25. ↑ Election to the German Bundestag - Election to the German Bundestag 2017 Essen - overall result. Retrieved July 4, 2018 .
  26. ↑ "If you don't want to hear, you have to feel": Non-party Serge Menga comments on the election result - and celebrates the AfD. In: derwesten.de. September 25, 2017. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Menga, Serge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menga Nsibu, Serge Nathan Dash (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political activist of Congolese descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1977