In the last few days, many different explanations have emerged to justify the Hitler salutes shown in Chemnitz.
Now a meme has appeared that is supposed to prove that one of the men is an extra for the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. This is very interesting, because it is now the second attempt at explanation to portray this man as a deliberately used disruptor (see: “Fact check: photojournalist Thomas Victor and the Nazi in Chemnitz” here ).
Now it is suddenly an alleged job advertisement from the BAMF, in which corpulent people are wanted for demonstrations against the right-wing and protests against deportation, which is intended to show that the man pictured is not supposed to be what he portrays.

We already know this job advertisement and can therefore say quite clearly that the man is NOT a paid BAMF extra.
Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
We are hiring:
Extras m/fWe are looking for corpulent people (male/female) for image and video recordings for demonstrations against the right and protests against deportations.
Remuneration: Minimum wage plus allowances, travel expenses and food.
The fact check:
It is interesting that there are two competing justification theories that are intended to expose this man as a consciously deployed “agent provocateur”. As with the dangerous and legally problematic false report about Thomas Victor, one can also say about this theory: This is a fake!
We were able to locate the origin of this image on March 6, 2017 on a Twitter channel called “ Daily Fake News ”. They, in turn, say they are a satirical site and publish “Satirical Daily News” .

The actual tweet was removed from the page mentioned!
Statement from the BAMF
Back then, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) issued the following statement:
The Federal Office distances itself from a job advertisement circulating on social media that is looking for extras for a video shoot. This ad is fake. You can find BAMF job offers on our website using the following link .
Furthermore (subsequent reader's note) about the fake “BAMF is looking for extras for picture and video recordings”:
The fake job advertisement states that the BAMF would pay extras according to the “minimum wage”.
The BAMF is a federal authority of the Federal Republic of Germany. The federal authorities are bound by collective agreements to the public service collective agreement (TVöD), which was concluded with the collective bargaining union United Services Union (ver.di), represented by the federal executive board of ver.di based in Berlin. There are various collective agreements for this collective bargaining area, including the pay scale (TVöD-EGO), through which BAMF employees are grouped into one of 15 pay groups (E1 to E15) according to their activities.
Salary groups apply to civil servants, but that's not what we're talking about here. These salary groups can be found in the TVöD salary table. The payment is stored there with specific euro amounts. The BAMF would never state “minimum wage” in an authentic job advertisement because the TVöD pay scale applies.
The creator of the fake job advertisement, apparently unaware of the complex salary structure and remuneration system of the public service in the Federal Republic of Germany, incorrectly stated “minimum wage” as the payment.
Ergo...
This man cannot be a BAMF extra, as such a position was never advertised and does not exist. Furthermore, satire (that was not noticed) is used here to justify unconstitutional behavior.
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