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Right-wing extremist Sellner is said to have spoken to AfD MPs not only in Potsdam, but also in Dasing, Bavaria.
And there are other allegations.
Dasing - Reports about a secret meeting in Potsdam have been making headlines for weeks: The Austrian right-wing extremist Martin Sellner, former spokesman for the Identitarian Movement in Austria, spoke to politicians, business leaders and other participants about remigration, i.e. the mass expulsion of people from Germany.
It has now become known that Sellner was apparently a guest in Dasing in Swabia around two weeks earlier.
There he is said to have spoken in an inn in the community in the Aichach-Friedberg district.
Before the Potsdam meeting – post on social media shows Sellner in Bavaria
Burkhard Körner, the head of the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, spoke about the Austrian right-wing extremist's participation in an interview with the
Augsburger Allgemeine
.
A representative of the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution confirmed after the newspaper that a social media post shows Sellner as a speaker at the event on November 11th in Dasing.
Sellner was also the main speaker there and spoke about the “remigration” of people with a migration background from Germany.
Two AfD members of the state parliament were apparently also present at the meeting in Dasing.
This emerges from another Internet article, according to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
According to research by the
Augsburger Allgemeine,
these are the two Bavarian state parliament members Franz Schmid and Daniel Halemba.
Both can be seen in a photo from the event in Dasing, according to the report.
The Austrian right-wing extremist Martin Sellner (M.) apparently also presented his anti-constitutional plans in Dasing.
The AfD MPs Daniel Halemba (l.) and Franz Schmid (r.) are said to have been there.
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Controversial AfD MPs Halemba and Schmid are probably present at Sellner's speech in Dasing
Halemba has already caused a stir as he is being investigated on suspicion of sedition and the use of Nazi symbols.
At times there was even talk of arresting him directly in the Bavarian state parliament.
This was seen by Martin Böhm, the deputy parliamentary group leader of the AfD, as a good opportunity to discredit the state parliament president Ilse Aigner, as he himself admitted.
The AfD member of the state parliament Schmid, who is also said to have been there in Dasing, is also criticized.
After the recent Bavarian AfD party conference in Greding, the AfD politician visited a disco where anti-foreigner slogans were chanted.
This was seen on a video.
Schmid confirmed to the dpa that he had visited the disco, but defended himself against the accusation that he had joined in the chanting.
New research into the secret meeting in Potsdam apparently points directly to the AfD leadership
Meanwhile, new information has also been published about the secret meeting held in Potsdam, which has been causing a stir and protests for weeks.
This is about Arne Friedrich Mörig, who, according to research by the media company
Correctiv
, presented his plans to found an agency for right-wing influencers at this meeting.
The 31-year-old was apparently paid for his lecture directly from funds from the AfD federal executive board.
This emerges from research by
WDR
,
NDR
and the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
.
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The money for Mörig, who is the son of the organizer of the “Potsdam meeting”, is said to come directly from the personal budget of AfD federal spokeswoman Alice Weidel.
This brings the secret meeting in Potsdam, at which, among other things, mass expulsions of unassimilated citizens from Germany were discussed, closer to the leadership of the federal AfD.
The party had previously downplayed the meeting as a private gathering.
New reports about secret meetings in Potsdam – Mörig is said to have had a contract with the AfD since 2022
According to the research, Mörig is said to have had a contract with the AfD since the end of 2022 and to have worked for the party's federal executive board in the area of social media.
However, this contract is now said to have been terminated.
The 31-year-old Mörig is said to have presented his plans to found a right-wing influencer agency to the AfD federal executive board.
This apparently happened after the meeting in Potsdam, but before
Correctiv
reported on it.
Inquiries from
NDR
,
WDR
and
SZ
about the topic from Weidel, Hartwig, Mörig and the AfD have so far remained unanswered.
It was previously known that two AfD MPs and Weidel's personal advisor Roland Hartwig had taken part in the Potsdam meeting.
Weidel fired Hartwig shortly afterwards without explaining the reasons in more detail.
Members of the CDU and Values Union also took part in the meeting.
Party expulsion proceedings are underway against them and the CDU has threatened strict consequences.
AfD district executive's account apparently played a role at the Potsdam meeting
The new research also apparently uncovered another connection between the AfD and the so-called “Düsseldorfer Runde”, which is said to have met regularly in the villa in Potsdam.
Organizer Gernot Mörig is said to have suggested that donations be transferred to his brother-in-law's private account.
According to
WDR
,
NDR
and
SZ,
this is Thomas Grebien, member of the AfD district executive committee in the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein.
Grebien was also a co-founder of the “Heimattreuen Deutschen Jugend” (HDJ), which was banned in 2009.
When asked, the district chairman of the AfD in Plön said that he knew nothing about his assessor's previous role in the HDJ and in the context of the Düsseldorf Round.
He did not comment on possible consequences.
Neither the federal AfD nor Thomas Grebien himself have commented on the matter.
Editor Stephanie Munk wrote this article and then used an AI language model to optimize it at her own discretion. All information has been carefully checked.