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Employees of AfD MPs are said to have boasted about violence against leftists
AfD parliamentary group: Müller’s statements could be relevant with a view to a possible banning procedure for the party
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Was Mario Müller, long-time head of the right-wing “Identitarian Movement,” partly responsible for an attack on an Antifa activist? According to Correctiv, he is said to have made this statement at the infamous secret conference of right-wing extremists.
At the secret meeting between AfD politicians, neo-Nazis and private supporters in November 2023, Mario Müller, who had a previous conviction for assault, boasted that he was partly responsible for a violent attack and that he was running a political search platform. Müller is an employee in the office of AfD member of the Bundestag Jan Wenzel Schmidt. According to Correctiv, he said at the meeting that he had made the whereabouts of a potential key witness public in the right-wing milieu and had hired a gang of thugs to target him.
“Never set up a ‘thug squad'”
When asked by Correctiv, he denied involvement in the attack: “I never set up a ‘squad of thugs’ on anyone,” he said. He only exchanged information about the man’s whereabouts “with Polish journalists” and then found out about the attack “from the Internet.”
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His statements in the lecture contradict this: Müller claimed to his listeners that he had found out the whereabouts of the Antifa activist in November 2021 and passed it on to “Polish experience-oriented football circles” – i.e. hooligans. They in turn confronted the man on the street “very physically and sportily”, whereupon the victim suffered a nervous breakdown. This is today’s key witness in the trial against Lina E., who was convicted in the first instance of left-wing extremist violence.
Enemies: Antifa, politicians, leftists, journalists
According to the editorial sources, in his remarks to the audience in the Adlon country house near Potsdam, Müller also made it clear that he saw not only Antifa as an enemy, but also politicians, left-wing civil society and journalists, among others. Through his position in the Bundestag office, he has access to confidential information that he, as an “extreme right-wing violent criminal,” could use “to pursue his political agenda,” fears Thuringian state parliament member Katharina König-Preuss (Left).
Confronted with the allegations, Müller writes that he rejects violence “out of conviction” and writes: “I do not pose a risk to anyone in the German Bundestag or elsewhere.” As a research assistant, he works exclusively on mandate-related work and public relations work.
Is Müller behind the informer account?
According to research, Müller also boasted at the meeting that he was behind a high-reach account on the short message service X, formerly Twitter: “Documentation of left-wing extremism.” The account spreads details about left-wing actors, politicians and journalists with real names, photos and other information in order to put them in the focus of the right-wing scene. When asked about this, he flatly denied involvement in the account without providing any further information.
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Müller’s claims in the lecture in Potsdam could be relevant with a view to a possible AfD ban procedure. Because: If such a procedure were actually to take place, the Federal Constitutional Court would not only have to assess whether the AfD represents an anti-constitutional stance at the federal level. But also whether she tries to implement this attitude in an aggressive, combative manner.
Source:Corrective