Visits to terrorist suspects
Wissler: “AfD has a hinge function for right-wing terror”
January 26, 2024, 12:05 a.m
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Three members of the current AfD parliamentary group are said to have a permanent visit permit for a terrorist suspect. The report on the contacts with the imprisoned Malsack-Winkemann shakes up political Berlin. The Greens and the Left urge caution.
The Greens and the Left have reacted with concern to research by “Stern” and RTL, according to which AfD politicians visited former Bundestag member Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, suspected of terrorism, in custody. “If the results of the research are correct, the urgent question arises as to whether the network’s alleged overthrow plans around Henry “Star”.
The First Parliamentary Managing Director wants to use the research as an opportunity to discuss this with the parliamentary groups’ security representatives. “We must do everything we can to protect Parliament and ensure that it is not attacked from within,” said Mihalic.
For the federal chairwoman of the Left, Janine Wissler, the revelation shows “once again that the AfD is the parliamentary arm of right-wing terrorism.” The politician told the magazine: “The visits and the continued close connection make it clear that the AfD has a hinge function to right-wing terror and the brown swamp.” The AfD must be fought decisively by all democratic forces, demanded Wissler.
According to research by “Stern” and RTL, three members of the current AfD parliamentary group have a permanent permit to visit Malsack-Winkemann in Berlin’s Lichtenberg correctional facility: Gereon Bollmann, Jürgen Pohl and Steffen Kotré. The Federal Prosecutor General recently charged the former judge with membership in a terrorist organization.
As part of the “Reich Citizens” group around Henry XIII. Prince Reuss is said to have helped plan the overthrow of the federal government and led a spy squad of a kind of underground army through the Bundestag. Malsack-Winkemann has been in custody since December 7, 2022. Pohl, a close confidant of the Thuringian AfD state chairman Björn Höcke, replied in an email to “Stern” and RTL: “After a year in custody, wouldn’t you also be happy if you were visited by a third party?”