After the meeting of the radical right in Potsdam on the topic of ‘remigration’, another event involving the former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, is now causing a stir. AfD politicians were also present at the event, which took place before the Potsdam event. Other parties are now demanding clarification.
As the AfD confirmed on Wednesday, two Bavarian members of the state parliament took part in an event with Sellner in Swabia. The parliamentarians went “personally without instructions from the parliamentary group or their knowledge” to the meeting in Dasing near Augsburg. “The matter will initially be handled internally,” an AfD spokesperson said. The state parliamentary group only found out about the event and participation through reporting.
Söder: “Clear position against right-wing extremism”
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) announced that the meeting in Dasingen should be closely investigated by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and become an issue in the state parliament. “The new revelations about a radical #secret meeting in Swabia are the biggest concern. These unbearable events are an attack on democracy and peaceful coexistence in our country,” he wrote on the X platform (formerly Twitter). “The state parliamentary group #AfD is increasingly looking like the most radical bloc within the AfD.” Anyone who can be proven to have taken part in the meeting should be excluded from the group, Söder demanded.
Sellner himself had explained that the November 11 event was “not primarily about the idea of remigration.” He presented his own book. He did not provide details about the participants. The Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution was informed of the meeting through various internet publications. The authority explained that, according to Sellner’s statements in the online articles, “more than 60, mainly young people, participated” in the event in Dasing (Aichach-Friedberg district).
A spokesperson for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution explained that Sellner called this meeting the “Swabian Congress in the Augsburg Region.” “Another internet report shows two Bavarian AfD members of the state parliament at the same location on the same day, so it must be concluded that they attended the event together with Sellner,” said the spokesperson for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
The leader of the Green Party in the state parliament, Katharina Schulze, demanded that Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) clarify the authorities’ findings on the events in Dasing and the actors involved. “Little by little, the AfD continues to reveal its true face. “It makes plans to deport hundreds of thousands of Germans, it maintains close ties with the right-wing extremist Identitarian movement and unashamedly prosecutes neo-Nazi hardliners,” Schulze said.
Ban proceedings against AfD necessary
The Bavarian state chairman of the SPD, Florian von Brunn, called for tougher action by the state Office for the Protection of the Constitution against the AfD. “These are no longer outliers of individual officials, this is the general anti-constitutional attitude of the AfD,” he said. “We need a ban on the AfD’s new Nazis.”
Demos against right-wing extremism
A report by the research center Correctiv about a meeting of the radical right in Potsdam on November 25 with several AfD politicians and individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Values Union had led to numerous demonstrations against right-wing extremism throughout the country in recent weeks.
Sellner said he talked about “remigration” in Potsdam. When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin must leave the country – even under duress.
Source: Krone
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