An alleged statement from the Basler Zeitung about Merkel in a picture has been circulating for some time.

Accordingly, the “Basler Zeitung” from Switzerland is said to have written about Angela Merkel that she had “staged a social pile-up and suspended the rule of law”.
The text is distributed in this form:

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Screenshot mimikama.org

The text on the picture verbatim:

This is what the Basler Zeitung in Switzerland writes:
“In just three years, Merkel has destabilized a strong, homogeneous and orderly country like Germany, created devastating conditions that have not been experienced since the Second World War by staging a social pile-up and... The rule of law has been abrogated. In Germany, an extra-legal “asylum machine” was set in motion that can only be described as a fraudulent and lying institutional smear theater! Officials were instructed to commit thousands of abuses of office, etc. There can be no political stability under such upheavals.”

In search of the origin...

One would think that such a harsh text in such detail could simply be found on the pages of the Basler Zeitung. But that is not the case, the text cannot be found, but this has been claimed in various comments since July 2018, such as here in the comments of the Pfalz Express :

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And also be found on vk.com , the Russian Facebook counterpart, to which many who feel “censored” by Facebook take refuge:

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...in the web archive

There we finally found what we were looking for. Surprise: The origin of the text can actually be found on the pages of the Basler Zeitung. But not in an article, but in a comment !

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Screenshot mimikama.org

That comment has since been deleted, but can still be viewed here . The above text is also mentioned on the blog “ Widerworte

Conclusion

That text was never a criticism of Merkel's policies by the Basler Zeitung, but was just a comment from a reader under an article in the newspaper.


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