Tino Chrupalla is also said to have met with the organizer of the meeting in Potsdam in 2021. He pretends to be clueless and attacks Chancellor Scholz.
Update from January 15th, 9:25 a.m.: After the allegations against Tino Chrupalla that he took part in a meeting of right-wing networks, the AfD leader appears to be clueless. Compared to the Editorial network Germany Chrupalla said he “can’t remember anything.” He also doesn’t miss the opportunity to shoot against the current Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD). In a statement, Chrupalla said Time online: “I’m like Scholz, I don’t remember anything anymore.”
He is alluding to the Chancellor’s involvement in the cum-ex tax scandal surrounding the Hamburg Warburg Bank. Before the parliamentary committee of inquiry, Scholz stated that he could no longer remember individual details from conversations.
Thank you letter reveals Chrupalla’s participation in a secret meeting of right-wing radicals
Update from January 13th, 2:30 p.m: After Mirror also reports this Time from a meeting at which AfD leader Tino Chrupalla is said to have been present. The event in October 2021 was about raising money for right-wing extremist projects. Chrupalla was apparently also there. This emerges from a draft of a thank you letter from the Time is present. The fact that the AfD federal chairman took the long journey “in order to drive back to Berlin via Görlitz early the next morning was certainly not a given,” the letter said. The meeting was called “5. Düsseldorf Round”.
First report from January 13th: Berlin – Explosive allegations: AfD leader Tino Chrupalla is said to have taken part in a meeting organized by Gernot Mörig. Mörig already organized the conspiratorial meeting between right-wing extremists and AfD members and three CDU-Members in Potsdam, via the investigative portal Corrective reported on Wednesday. A plan for mass deportation was discussed there.
The Mirror now reports, citing a document leaked by Anonymous years ago, about Chrupalla’s alleged participation in a meeting with Mörig in Düsseldorf in 2021. Chrupalla did not comment to the magazine.
Was Chrupalla at meetings with suspected right-wing extremists?
In the letter, Mörig thanked him loudly Mirror and Corrective, a “right-wing extremist” who has been active for decades, the participants of a “5. Düsseldorf Round”. Regarding Chrupalla’s alleged participation in the meeting shortly after Federal election 2021 says loudly there Mirror Accordingly: “That – immediately after a strenuous federal election campaign – the federal spokesman for the AfD, Tino Chrupalla, gets into the car himself to answer questions in a completely uncomplicated and credible manner in front of a small private circle, early the next morning Driving back to Berlin via Görlitz was certainly not a given!”
Neither Chrupalla nor the AfD federal party responded to the request mirror responded, the report said. Gernot Mörig also left a query from the magazine unanswered. What in the “5. “Düsseldorf Round” was spoken, it is therefore unclear whether it should have taken place.
Hajo Funke warns against AfD: Völkischer wing around Höcke and Krah sets the tone
If you want to understand the AfD in 2024, you don’t have to look at the co-chairs, Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, says Berlin political scientist Hajo Funke. Within the party, politicians such as the Thuringian AfD state leader, Björn Höcke, and the AfD’s top candidate for the European elections, Maximilian Krah, set the tone. Unlike years ago, when politicians like Jörg Meuthen and Frauke Petry tried to make the AfD a party capable of forming a coalition, Höcke is relying on a different strategy.
What this looks like became clear, for example, during a speech by Höcke in Gera in October 2022. At that time, the Thuringian state chairman said he felt powerless “because we don’t yet have the levers of power in our hands.” As early as 2016, he said in an interview: “Of course we want to co-govern, but not as junior partners in a coalition that will ultimately be dominated by an old party.”
Years ago, Höcke wrote about the “well-tempered cruelty” that would be experienced against everyone who, according to his world view, should not live in Germany. Höcke can legally be called a fascist. His regional association is the strongest force in the polls for the state elections in Thuringia, which take place in September. In order for a radical party like the AfD to have no option for power in the long term, “the Democrats have to get their act together now,” says political scientist Funke. (kb with dpa)