An extremely tasteless election campaign by the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany has come into the crosshairs of the investigation. In Karlsruhe, countless people with a migrant background found flyers in their mailboxes that were modeled on airline tickets, but with the caption ‘Deportation Ticket’.
There was also a QR code printed on the ‘deportation ticket’ that led to the AfD Karlsruhe website. According to reports in the German media, such flyers were also found on some delegates at the federal party conference in Riesa (Saxony). The police are now investigating on suspicion of sedition.
The party responded very quickly to the outcry, explaining that it was not a targeted distribution campaign for people with a migrant background. Instead, 30,000 printed copies were distributed to the people without any special requirements.
Just ‘legal requirements’?
It was also emphasized that on the back of the flyer everything was justified and that there were “legal political demands”. Karlsruhe Mayor Frank Mentrup (SPD) sharply criticized the action, telling Südwestrundfunk that “a line had been crossed” and that the cohesion of society was at risk.
Last weekend, AfD leader Alice Weidel vowed to her party colleagues to make a radical change of course if she won the federal elections. In this case, she announced that she would close Germany’s borders and organize “large-scale repatriations.”
Source: Krone
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