It&#x27;s not just hate speech. &quot;Volksverhetzung&quot; implies that it is also incitement to commit crimes.<p>When you stand on the street and loudly demand that specific people or groups of people should be killed or injured in specific ways, that&#x27;s a different matter from just saying those same people shouldn&#x27;t be allowed into the country or should be deported.<p>One is demanding a change in policy or political action. The other is demanding vigilante &quot;justice&quot; and lynching.<p>This has nothing to do with Merkel (who btw is a conservative -- her refugee policy has been the single most liberal thing she did since entering office) and everything to do with upholding the constitution and the state of law.<p>Whether you demand the murder of refugees, nazis or antifa, if you openly do so while addressing the public, you are committing a crime under German law. The law protects all humans, not just refugees.