Bavaria
Participants at the AfD party conference are said to have chanted racist slogans
The investigators spoke of a “larger group” of around 30 people who were said to have been involved in the incident
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The AfD state party conference took place in Greding, Bavaria, at the weekend. Afterwards, participants are said to have shouted xenophobic slogans in a disco. The state security agency is investigating unknown persons.
In Greding, Bavaria, dozens of participants are said to be one AfD state party conference at the weekend in a discotheque chanted xenophobic slogans. The police had “indications that the people were participants in the event,” the officials said on Tuesday in Nuremberg. “These are currently being examined,” it continued.
The investigators spoke of a “larger group of people” of around 30 people who chanted xenophobic slogans to a song on Sunday night. The operator of the discotheque then influenced the group “so that they stopped what they were doing”. The police were not called in that night.
Witnesses reported the incident on Sunday after an AfD party conference
Witnesses reported the incident on Sunday and criminal proceedings were initiated against unknown persons. The state security agency took over the investigation into the initial suspicion of inciting statements. The officers asked for information from witnesses as well as images and video material. On Saturday and Sunday, the Bavarian AfD met in Greding for a state party conference.