Overview
- Police in Halle plan a deployment of several hundred officers and warn of road and transit disruptions near the trade fair grounds.
- The event, called SeitenWechsel, lists around 100 exhibitors including figures and outlets from the New Right such as Compact and networks linked to Götz Kubitschek.
- Organizers of the campaign ‘Rechte Buchmesse stoppen’ called a Saturday march starting 9:00 at Damaschkestraße/Dieselstraße with three rallies registered at the venue, plus an evening procession from Neues Theater to Volkspark.
- Dresden bookseller Susanne Dagen, an AfD city council faction member, initiated the fair and describes it as “geistige Notwehr” in response to what she portrays as narrowing space at major book fairs.
- Counter-actions include the citywide ‘Wir’-Festival with roughly 350 to 365 events and university-backed visibility efforts, with additional commemorations for 9 November planned in Halle.