Right-wing extremism
Halemba employs AfD leaders
The AfD’s federal executive board wants to deal with the case of the Bavarian politician Daniel Halemba next week. photo
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The youngest member of the Bavarian state parliament is being investigated for, among other things, sedition. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has now also become active.
The Daniel Halemba case has wider implications: the allegations against the Bavarian AfD members of the state parliament for sedition and other crimes are now also a concern for the AfD’s federal leadership. According to a spokesman, the federal executive board wants to deal with the case at a meeting next Monday evening.
According to media reports, it is also about possible violations of AfD regulations, which Halemba, as the Würzburg AfD district chairman, is accused of. In addition, the Teutonia Prague fraternity in Würzburg, to which Halemba also belongs, has been under surveillance by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution since the beginning of December. This has also been true for the AfD as a party in Bavaria for a long time.
The AfD federal executive committee routinely requested statements from the AfD Bavarian state executive committee, the AfD Lower Franconia district executive committee, the Junge Alternative state executive committee and from one of the affected members “in order to be able to rule out any violations of the party’s rules in this matter,” said the speaker with. The news portal t-online and the “Main-Post” had previously reported. The comments have been received in full and are now being evaluated. “Part of this evaluation will also be the allegations or investigations against an affected member of our party.”
Arrest warrant suspended on conditions
The Würzburg public prosecutor’s office is investigating Halemba for incitement to hatred and for using the symbols of anti-constitutional organizations. The 22-year-old student, who most recently lived in Würzburg, rejects the allegations.
In the meantime, Halemba had been arrested on the basis of an arrest warrant from the Würzburg district court. The arrest warrant was then suspended with certain conditions, and Halemba was given reporting requirements and a ban on contact with other suspects. These include members of the Teutonia Prag zu Würzburg fraternity, to which Halemba himself belongs.
This fraternity has been under surveillance by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution since December. “The activity of the Teutonia Prague fraternity in Würzburg is an object of observation by the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution,” the authority said upon request. The “Main-Echo” had previously reported on it.
It was said that there were sufficiently strong indications that the activities of the fraternity emanated from efforts against the free, democratic basic order.
Sticker from III. Way in common areas
Right-wing extremist music was played in the fraternity house. The fraternity also used its premises to store propaganda material from the right-wing extremist Identitarian movement. In doing so, she strongly supported the right-wing extremist efforts of this movement.
The group’s right-wing extremist orientation is also reflected in the numerous stickers placed in the fraternity’s common rooms that refer to right-wing extremist groups such as Party III. Way or the Identitarian Movement.
In addition, Nazi devotional items and stickers with right-wing extremist agitation were found in the common areas, which were particularly directed against the human dignity of people with a migration background and against the principle of the rule of law. An activist from the neo-Nazi micro-party III was also present at two events. been present. There are also strong personnel overlaps between members of the fraternity’s Aktivitas and Junge Alternative (JA).