Courthouse News reports:
Calls to ban Germany’s strengthening far-right party, the Alternative für Deutschland, on grounds it’s a threat to democracy are growing after some of its members took part in an event where plans were discussed about deporting masses of “foreigners,” including citizens deemed not to have adequately “assimilated” into German culture.
The event was headlined by Martin Sellner, an Austrian activist associated with neo-Nazi movements. Other attendees included Roland Hartwig, a high-ranking member of the Alternative for Germany party and personal aide to co-party leader Alice Weidel. Following the revelations, Hartwig stepped down from his position.
In the wake of the revelations thousands of Germans in cities across the country have held daily protests against the AfD, as the far-right party is known. Numerous demonstrations are scheduled this weekend against a party that has soared in opinions polls and is on track to win three state elections this fall in eastern Germany.
Correctiv reports:
Sellner, author and a leading figure in the European New Right, is the first speaker of the day. In his introduction, the audience are told that Sellner has “the masterplan”, which centres around one key idea: “re-migration”.
In his speech he details what re-migration would mean in Germany. There are three target groups of migrants, he explains, who should be extradited from the country – or, as he puts it, “foreigners” who should undergo “reversed settlement”. They are: asylum seekers, non-Germans with residency rights, and “non-assimilated” German citizens. It is the latter that, in his view, would pose the biggest “challenge”.
The scenarios sketched out in this hotel room in Potsdam all essentially boil down to one thing: people in Germany should be forcibly extradited if they have the wrong skin colour, the wrong parents, or aren’t sufficiently “assimilated” into German culture according to the standards of people like Sellner. Even if they have German citizenship.
There’s much more at both links above. In the Correctiv piece, their undercover journalist exhaustively recounts the chilling details of the secret meeting.
As I’ve previously reported, AfD co-leader Alice Weidel [photo above], is in a civil union with a woman with whom she shares two children, but she opposes same-sex marriage and other LGBTQ rights.
Calls to ban Germany’s far-right party, the Alternative für Deutschland, on grounds it’s a threat to democracy are growing after some of its members took part in an event where plans were discussed about deporting masses of “foreigners.” @cainburdeau https://t.co/qEv1W6M0mO
— Courthouse News (@CourthouseNews) January 19, 2024
After @correctiv_org published an investigation of a meeting of far-right politicians discussing the “re-migration” of immigrants, protests have started across Germany against the AfD
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— Agatha Cantrill🤖 (@aggichristiane) January 20, 2024