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View of the guest house at Lehnitzsee in the Neu Fahrland district of Potsdam.
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After the meeting of radical right-wingers in a villa in Potsdam, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Brandenburg deals with the property.
In the state parliament's interior committee, AfD members speak of defamation.
Potsdam - The Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Brandenburg is examining whether it will focus more on the location after the meeting of radical right-wingers in a villa in Potsdam.
Head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution Jörg Müller told the state parliament's Interior Committee on Wednesday that he did not rule out the possibility of the villa being placed on the list of scene properties.
According to him, the authority will collect evidence and evaluate whether the house was used several times by right-wing extremists and for their purposes.
“We assume that we have other insights,” said Müller.
He did not provide any further information about this in the state parliament's interior committee.
The media company Correctiv reported on a meeting between the radical right and some AfD and CDU politicians in a Potsdam villa on November 25th.
The former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, said he spoke about “remigration” there.
When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country - even under duress.
Several AfD politicians as well as individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Values Union also took part in the meeting.
He was not surprised by the meeting in Potsdam, Müller told the Interior Committee on Wednesday.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has been warning for years that there is a network that is aimed at removing the boundaries of right-wing extremism - i.e. at connecting them to the middle of society.
The state association of the AfD in Brandenburg is taking up Sellner's positions and his “remigration concept,” said Müller.
The Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies the AfD state association as a suspected right-wing extremist case.
According to his presentation, there were also participants from Brandenburg at the supra-regional meeting.
AfD members of the state parliament verbally attacked the head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the Interior Committee and accused him, among other things, of not being neutral.
Parliamentarian Birgit Bessin spoke of insinuations and defamations.
She also said: “Mr. Sellner does not speak for the AfD.” AfD MP Lena Kotré accused the head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, among other things, of destroying livelihoods.
She also referred to the guest house where the meeting took place.
Brandenburg's Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) said on Wednesday that, as far as he knew, there was a criminal complaint due to suspected illegal wiretapping activities during and around this meeting.
He described the allegations made by AfD MPs against the head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Müller, as insults and vehemently rejected them.
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