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Björn Höcke in Merseburg
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The green state chairman of Saxony-Anhalt, Sebastian Striegel, has filed a criminal complaint against the Thuringian AfD state chairman Björn Höcke.
The occasion is a speech by Höcke in Merseburg in the state election campaign, which he ended with the words "Everything for Germany".
Höcke could have used symbols of unconstitutional organizations and thus made himself liable to prosecution. In a document of the Scientific Service of the Bundestag it is said, for example, that "the use of the sentence› Alles für Deutschland ‹in a speech at a meeting" is a criminal offense, since it was the "slogan of the SA," the paramilitary fighting organization of the NSDAP during the Weimar Republic.
In his criminal complaint, Striegel wrote that the Thuringian AfD chairman had hardly made the sentence spontaneously: "The statement is made at the end of a thoroughly orchestrated speech by the representative of a party that is the object of observation of the constitutional protection in Thuringia," said Striegel.
"The reported speaker may be judged as a 'fascist' because this value judgment is based on a verifiable factual basis."
The SA slogan was used earlier by AfD politicians.
The Saxon-Anhalt AfD deputy Kay-Uwe Ziegler was also reported because of this.
In Brandenburg there was a poster with the slogan What caused trouble.
In both cases, the authors denied having known the historical background.
The office of the former history teacher Björn Höcke had not responded to a SPIEGEL request by the time we went to press.