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AfD party members are said to have taken part in a secret meeting with right-wing extremists. The waves are rising.
In Germany, people seem to be a bit surprised by the large protests against the right. Hundreds of thousands are taking to the streets these days; The media and comment columns are full of them.
And how does the AfD react? The party’s politicians are said to have taken part in a secret meeting with right-wing extremists in November, as Correctiv research from January 10 shows. It is said to have been about the expulsion of millions of people from Germany.
“Infamous media campaign”
Now AfD politician Bernd Baumann has commented on this. He is the first parliamentary managing director of the AfD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. In an ARD interview, Baumann denies many allegations. There is no evidence that the words “deportation” or “expulsion” were used at the meeting.
Baumann himself used «Remigration”, which is used in right-wing circles to trivialize deportations. He emphasized that this meant the migration of foreigners who had no right to protection in Germany.
The whole thing is also an “infamous media campaign, just because we win all the elections in East Germany”. In fact, according to surveys, the AfD would have over 20 percent of the vote. Regarding the meeting itself, Baumann said it was “one among private individuals,” “like there are thousands in Germany. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has confirmed that there is nothing against any of those involved.”
Normal meeting, right?
Radio RSI analyzed Baumann’s statements with the freelance journalist Walter Rauhe. Why does the Correctiv research speak of a “secret meeting”? “The meeting took place behind closed doors and by invitation only.” The participants promised the organizers a donation of at least 5,000 euros, said Rauhe.
The participants would have had to hand over their cell phones and bags and agree not to reveal the contents of the meeting to the outside world. It was also problematic that there were several neo-Nazis with previous convictions among the participants. “It is therefore not true that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution has no reservations about the meeting.”
Rauhe contradicts the statement that the “master plan” only affects foreigners without a residence permit, as Baumann claimed. “Millions of citizens are affected, as the co-organizer of the meeting confirmed to participants in the meeting immediately after the facts became known.”
One must therefore emphasize, says Rauhe: “According to the plan, immigrants who are legally staying in Germany, citizens of foreign origin with a German passport, but also Germans would be affected, but according to the signatories of the master plan, they would not be assimilated.”