An employee of an AfD member of the Bundestag is in the focus of investigations because of possible contacts with an arms dealer ring.
This emerges from the response of the Bavarian state government to a small request from the Greens.
According to the police, the employee is said to have temporarily kept a war weapon in her private apartment.
According to SPIEGEL information, the woman is Dagmar S., an employee of the Munich Bundestag member Petr Bystron.
The Central Office for Combating Extremism and Terrorism of the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office confirmed investigations against a 49-year-old from the region on request.
During a search of her apartment on suspicion of violating the War Weapons Control Act, however, no weapon was found.
Bystron does not want to comment on allegations
Dagmar S.'s lawyer left a SPIEGEL request unanswered.
Petr Bystron did not want to comment on the allegations against his employee.
The case of Dagmar S. is part of a trial against a total of 16 accused, most of whom come from the right-wing extremist and Reich citizen milieu.
At the center is the alleged gun dealer Alexander R., who is said to have illegally procured weapons from Croatia for customers in Germany.
R. also has connections to the AfD.
He is currently in custody.
His lawyer said on request that the presumption of innocence applies.
The parliamentary group leader of the Greens in the Bavarian state parliament, Katharina Schulze, told SPIEGEL that the procedure shows how important it is for the constitution protection to declare the AfD an object of observation.
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