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Member of the Bundestag Huber: "Pure skin"
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Last week, AfD members smuggled right-wing activists into the Bundestag to disturb other parliamentarians.
Now more details about the relationship between the party and conspiracy theorists are revealed.
According to a report by the platform “netzpolitik.org”, Johannes Huber, a member of the Bundestag for the AfD, is said to have mobilized against political opponents in a Telegram chat group run by the vegan chef and conspiracy ideologist Attila Hildmann.
According to this, Huber is said to have repeatedly called for people to contact political opponents and to exert "pressure" on them.
Huber is also said to have shared a sample letter called a "fire letter to the government factions" in the group.
According to the metadata in the file, this goes back to Hubers’s office, they say.
According to the platform, the letter called for the "lifting of the" epidemic situation of national scope "".
The sender should also have linked a list of members of the Bundestag to be contacted.
Huber commented on the sample letter with "Haut rein" and "VG Johannes".
According to "netzpolitik.org" someone is now trying to "cover up" Huber's tracks in the chat group.
The MP himself therefore denies having shared the letter.
However, the platform has verified the authenticity of his account in the group according to its own information.
Council of Elders investigates incidents in the Bundestag
After the troublemaker incidents in the Bundestag last week, Huber's behavior appears particularly explosive.
In the run-up to the vote on the Infection Protection Act, several AfD members smuggled right-wing activists into the parliament building, where these parliamentarians filmed and harassed.
The Bundestag police identified the AfD MPs Udo Hemmelgarn, Petr Bystron and Hansjörg Müller as the ones who had given visitors access to the Bundestag.
According to the dpa news agency, the President of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Schäuble, was apparently considering legal action against those involved.
The Bundestag's Council of Elders had also investigated the incident and, in addition to legal action, considered a possible tightening of the rules of conduct for parliamentarians.
According to "netzpolitik.org", the council also dealt with a Facebook video from Huber.
There is the "suspicion that he let employees of other factions film without their consent."
Specifically, Huber is said to have made recordings with another person in front of the offices of MPs.
MPs were bombarded with tens of thousands of emails
In the run-up to the election, several MPs had also reported a number of identical emails to their offices.
CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt said, for example, that his office alone had received around 37,000 such emails with identical passages by the day before the vote.
Dobrindt spoke of a "brutal abuse of political debate in the networks with the use of deliberate misinformation".
In the run-up to the vote on the Internet, supporters of the "lateral thinking" movement started a petition entitled "No to the authorization basis" and asked the Bundestag not to pass the new version of the law.
The organization repeatedly uses such terms that play down the Holocaust.
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