Germany’s co-ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) filed a criminal complaint against a party member for saying Muslims should be gassed to death, citing how the same was done to Jews in the Holocaust, press reports said Thursday.
The Islamophobic remarks made by a CDU member in the western city of Krefeld caused outrage in the party ranks.
“Now let’s gas the Muslims,” a 23-year-old Christian Democrat suggested in a video shared on TikTok, according to the RND editorial network.
In his video, the man says: “When I’m high up, I’ll push them all out. Actually, I’d rather have them killed. Like, gassed or something.”
Addressing another person, he says, referring to the Nazi death camps in World War II, which killed millions of Jews: “We used to gas the Jews. And now we’re gassing the Muslims. What do you think of that?”