extremism
City of Potsdam: Entry ban proceedings against Sellner
Martin Sellner is the former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian movement in Austria. photo
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After a “weighing process”, the city of Potsdam is now doing its thing and wants to legally obtain an entry ban against Martin Sellner.
According to the press office, Mayor Mike Schubert (SPD) had already announced this step at a rally on Saturday.
At a meeting of radical right-wingers on November 25th in Potsdam, which was made public by the Correctiv research center and which was also attended by some AfD politicians as well as individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Union of Values, Sellner said he spoke about “remigration”. When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country – even under duress.
The next step
The city of Potsdam announced days ago that it should be assessed, in coordination with the German security authorities, whether Sellner’s statements at the meeting posed a threat to security and public order “and how repetitions can be prevented within the framework of local jurisdiction using constitutional means “. There was talk of a balancing process, now the next step followed.
Sellner wrote on his Telegram channel on Sunday that he wanted to take legal action against an entry ban into Germany. “My lawyer received a 33-page document attempting to portray me as an agitator and subversive.” This means that “the entire new patriotic movement, from the party to the front, should be criminalized and banned in the long term,” he wrote.