As the head of a far-right extremist group praises the return of a “German-friendly American” across the Atlantic, a salvo of boos erupts from a crowd just across the Erfurt city square.
Bjorn Höcke, the leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) most extreme faction, in the central German region of Thuringia, doesn’t turn his head. The short distance between him and them is insurmountable - and there’s a wall of police vans in the way.
