"I would have a lot more law and order"

When we first interviewed Fred Keup three and a half years ago, he had only been sitting in parliament for the adr for a few months. In the meantime, his party once again has a parliamentary group with five MPs, and the 44-year-old has taken over the presidency. He has given up the party chairmanship in return.

Lëtzebuerger Journal: Why are adr politicians always so aggressive? Your parliamentary group colleague Tom Weidig spends a lot of time provoking and ranting on social media. The president of the adr Fraen, Sylvie Mischel, rants on Facebook against the admission of refugees, which even forced her to briefly resign from her party offices, while you, as the new strongman of your party, are known to resort to gutter language from time to time. For example, you accused Serge Tonnar on social media some time ago, and this is just one example that comes to mind, of having "keng Jicken" (no balls) to go along with in the elections.

Fred Keup: In the political debate, one sometimes has to use exaggerated expressions. But we are peaceful people.

Serge Tonnar even wrote a song about you afterwards, de Faktefred, after you more or less said that you "couldn't care less" about the whole debate surrounding your Vice President Dan Hardy. Hardy had used the SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) logo, which is a symbol in the Reichsbürger scene (Reich Citizens), as a profile picture on WhatsApp for a while.

I made this statement a week before the elections in a conversation with Radio 100.7. Of course, I knew what to expect from this left-green radio station, which doesn't exactly like to give us a stage, and if it does, it's more likely to set a trap for us. It started straight away with a suggestive question and all kinds of insinuations, so I decided not to play along with this little game. Then came the story about the Reichsbürger sign, which nobody knows and Dan Hardy wasn't even aware of the connection …

Well …

This sign was used back then in the scene of those people who resisted the Corona rules. As a Luxembourger, you have nothing to do with a Reichsbürger. And as I didn't think the questions were fair, at some point I just said that I "didn't give a damn".

Do you now regret your reaction?

No, absolutely not. I would do it all over again in exactly the same way!