Overview

• Berlin police have opened proceedings against two protesters for disrupting Alice Weidel’s ARD Sommerinterview on July 20 with loud music and whistles.
• Activists from the Zentrum für politische Schönheit and an Augsburger Corner Chor mounted the unregistered protest using a bus-mounted sound system to drown out the interview.
• Police officials reject claims of prior coordination, saying there was no prearranged contact with the protesters or vehicle operators and that any assembly was registered only at the scene.
• At the Schlossfestspiele Regensburg on July 22, singer Vicky Leandros objected to Weidel’s presence while host Gloria von Thurn und Taxis maintained her private invitation was valid.
• Photographs published on July 23 show Weidel seated with von Thurn und Taxis inside Schloss St. Emmeram, intensifying disputes over the motives behind her absence from the open-air concert.