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Aral Balkan

So it turns out Yanis isn’t banned from Germany and it was just a lie told by the German police to stop him from speaking at the event?

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#germany #YanisVaroufakis #diem25 #israel #gaza #palestine #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide

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Hasko 🇪🇺🦄🌻

@aral or maybe he wanted to make a case out of it? Because he loves to do it

Aral Balkan

@lontrachen Well if he’s lying, it would be trivial for the German police/government to refute it. There were people recording at the event with their phones so it’s also possible the exchange was caught on video and it would probably also get the two lawyers stated as witnesses disbarred if they willingly perpetuated a lie. So let’s see but I find it highly unlikely. Yanis is macho and stubborn but, in my experience, at least, I haven’t known him to lie.

Hasko 🇪🇺🦄🌻

@aral maybe someone said something wrong at some of the press briefings somewhere and varoufakis just got mad like he loves to do, who knows?

I heard report of this event, one Palestinian politician who is banned from political events in Germany spoke there, but I didn’t hear anything about this case with Varoufakis.

I totally agree with the criticism on the German approach to this whole thing but I can’t have sympathy for him 😬

Midder

@lontrachen @aral

What of Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah the rector of Glasgow University, when he was deported, attempting to attend the event, was told he could be charged with the potential of a custodial sentence if he attempted to speak remotely.

Hasko, you seem to have some issue with Varoufakis?

P Regina

@aral There’s nothing to suggest that Varoufakis said anything other than was told to him. So, either the police lied, the Ministry of the Interior lied, or they both did.

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