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Jens Maier: According to media reports, the right-winger has submitted an application to return to his previous employment
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The judiciary in Saxony is apparently taking the former AfD MP Jens Maier back as a judge.
Several media reports, including the justice portal »LTO«, unanimously.
According to this, Maier, who in 2020 was classified as right-wing extremist by the Saxon Office for the Protection of the Constitution and who sat in the Bundestag for the AfD in the last legislative period, filed an application for reinstatement in the Saxon judiciary on December 23.
According to the »LTO«, the Saxon Ministry of Justice now recognizes that Maier has a right to return to the Free State's judiciary.
As the "Zeit" reports with reference to the ministry, Maier is entitled to a position with the old salary.
According to "LTO", Maier will not return to his former office, the Dresden Regional Court, but to another court selected by the ministry.
The Saxon State Office for the Protection of the Constitution had classified Maier in 2020 as a right-wing extremist because of his proximity to the extremist and now disbanded "wing" of the party.
Maier is one of the absolute hardliners of his party and has caused a sensation in the past with various extreme statements.
For example, he relativized the 77-fold murder of the Norwegian right-wing terrorist and Islam-hater Anders Breivik.
In 2018, Boris Becker's son, Noah Becker, was racially insulted in a tweet from Maier's account.
After a legal dispute over several instances, the AfD politician finally paid € 7,500 in compensation for pain and suffering.
By the end of 2016, Maier had also ruled on media and press law issues at the Dresden Regional Court and had already come under fire when, in May 2016, at the request of the NPD, he initially banned the renowned Dresden political scientist Steffen Kailitz from making critical statements about the right-wing extremist party.
Maier had lost his parliamentary mandate in the election last September.
According to the »Sächsischer Zeitung«, talks with the AfD parliamentary group to act as legal advisor for the party had recently failed.
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