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Ex-AfD MP Räpple (r.) In January 2019 at a press conference
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For a speech last September, the former AfD member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament, Stefan Räpple, could end up in court.
The public prosecutor's office in Koblenz has indicted Räpple and accused him of publicly encouraging criminal acts.
Räpple is said to have called for the violent overthrow of the federal government at a demonstration against the corona policy of the federal and state governments in Mainz last September, it said.
The Mainz Regional Court must now decide whether to admit the indictment.
In addition, Räpple is said to have stormed the stairs of the Berlin Reichstag building together with other demonstrators at a demonstration against the corona policy of the federal government and resisted police officers.
On August 29, several hundred demonstrators pushed up a staircase in the Reichstag building and got to the entrance.
Policemen could push them back.
The incident sparked outrage.
Dozens of suspected participants are being investigated.
The indictment also accuses the former AfD politician of having maliciously scorned the Federal Republic and its constitutional order on the Internet on the same day.
He is said to have called the Federal Republic of Germany an "arbitrary state" and "last filth".
Räpple has not yet commented on the allegations at the request of the dpa news agency.
Räpple was a member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg until the end of April this year and had repeatedly attracted negative attention in the Stuttgart parliament.
In December 2018, for example, the police led him out of the state parliament after heckling.
Initially, Räpple belonged to the AfD parliamentary group.
In connection with the statements made last September, he was expelled from the parliamentary group and remained a non-attached member of parliament until the end of the legislature.
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