A search was carried out on Wednesday at the party headquarters of the right-wing populist German AfD. “Since this morning, the Berlin prosecutor’s office has carried out a search of the premises of the federal office of the Alternative for Germany without previously sending an inquiry to the AfD about the facts to be cleared up,” the AfD said. Initially, the public prosecutor did not provide any information about this.
According to a party spokesperson, this mainly concerns an investigation against former party leader Jörg Meuthen, “which obviously needs clarification on some points regarding the reporting from 2016 to 2018 and the financing of the 2017 election campaign”.
“Extremely disproportionate measure”
The two party leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla criticized the approach. Weidel described it as “an extremely unusual and extremely disproportionate measure to intimidate the AfD as the main opposition party in Germany”.
Chrupalla said: “If the prosecutor had asked us in advance, we would have replied accordingly and made documents available.” According to him, “complete hard drives, mailboxes and file folders have been copied”.
Source: Krone
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