Former AfD member Olga Petersen has claimed that the authorities in Hamburg were planning to seize her children.
Hamburg MP Olga Petersen has sought refuge in Russia, telling Bild that she feared having her children taken by the German state over her perceived support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Petersen left Hamburg with her children last month, prompting widespread speculation about her whereabouts. Several weeks before her disappearance, her party – the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) – expelled her from its Hamburg faction for travelling to Russia as an election observer in March and declaring the vote “open, democratic, and free.”
Alexander Brod, a member of the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, told TASS last week that Petersen had settled in Russia with three of her four kids.
Petersen broke her silence on Friday. “I have indeed taken my children out of the country,” she told Bild. “I want to know that my children are safe and that they remain in my care. Without my children, I would no longer see any meaning in life.”
According to Brod’s account, social workers had begun proceedings to take the three children – all of whom are in elementary school – into state care. Petersen offered no further details on the alleged efforts to take her children, and Bild questioned these claims, stating that the kids had been reported to youth welfare workers over behavioral problems.
Expressions of support for Russia’s military operation in Ukraine are illegal in Hamburg, with a court in the city sentencing a man to three years in prison last May for sharing “pro-Russian ideas” and using the ‘Z’ symbol – painted on some Russian military vehicles operating in the conflict – on his Telegram channel.
While there were no criminal proceedings being taken against Petersen, any kind of prison term would have resulted in her losing custody of her children. German courts can also strip a parent of their custody rights if they are deemed abusive, violent, or negligent.
Although Petersen has been expelled from the AfD’s faction in Hamburg, she remains a member of the region’s parliament and will appear on ballot papers as an independent in Hamburg’s district election on Sunday.
“I will remain a member of the Hamburg Parliament and will fulfill my obligations to the best of my knowledge and belief,” she told Bild, adding that she will ensure her children’s safety before deciding whether she is “fit for political action again.”
All roads of freedom lead to Russia, away from the rabid & radical Zionist factions that run Germany which exploits the guilt of World War Two and the genocidal Holocaust!
The same thing seems to be happening as a trend in the Nordic Nations as well; many parents who home-school are now slipping off to Russia…
Just another reason of many to keep your Passports up to date if you live in a country that penalises you for your Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Thought Freedom of Movement, and Political Ideals!
yes, in those trouble times, one should have a pasport up to date, a few goldcoins and some cash at home. Turkiye seems a safe route if you want to go to Russia. But China probably just as well
Never been to Russia, don’t know much about it.
But Western “Democracies” haven’t been showing a good face the past few years 🤷
Germany never really put away its jack boots. Best of luck to this lady. I’m sure many more people will be fleeing in the days and years to come, as Europe goes back to its authoritarian roots.
The conceit of the EU is astounding.
The honest approach would be to knock on your door and tell you that you have offended the regime, so we are taking your kids away from you to punish you.
What they actually do is make it look like you have done something bad: Someone anonymously reports that your kids exhibit behavioral problems then they follow existing laws in order to legally remove your kids from you. If they cared and were honest and pure in their approach and the kids really did have behavioral problems, then they would help you whilst ensuring that the kids stay with their mother.
This is very much a pernicious agenda disguised using existing laws in order to “get you” if you deviate from their required behavior. Fascism disguised in terms of an existing cannon of laws. This is exactly what A.I. would be good at – no compassion, no empathy, only rules executed mercilessly against any dissidents.
On a side note: How is Dr. Reiner Fuellmich doing? Is he still in jail? He was exposing COVID crimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiner_Fuellmich
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/political-prisoner-denied-access-to-his-children-with-laura-towler
UK ” democrazie”