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View of the guest house at Lehnitzsee in the Neu Fahrland district of Potsdam. © Jens Kalaene/dpa
The Potsdam public prosecutor's office will not investigate employees of the online magazine Correctiv and other defendants in connection with reporting on a meeting of radical right-wingers. The public prosecutor's office announced on Thursday that there was no initial suspicion of prosecutable crimes. Criminal complaints were filed against the magazine and its employees for, among other things, violations of the confidentiality of the word, the most personal sphere of life and personal rights through image recordings.
Potsdam - The magazine reported on a secret meeting in a Potsdam villa on January 10, 2024 under the title “Secret plan against Germany”.
AfD member of the Bundestag Gerrit Huy placed one of the advertisements because of the images and possible audio recordings. Huy told the dpa at the time that she wanted to have access to any sound and image recordings so that, if the case was positive, she wanted to sue for their release and, in particular, to subsequently make the tape recordings public.
The Potsdam public prosecutor's office has now stated that there is no evidence that unauthorized audio recordings of the meeting were made. “If it was possible to infer from individual press reports that audio recordings could have been made secretly, this was not confirmed after examination.” The image recordings also did not violate the boundaries of the “highly personal sphere of life,” explained a spokesman for the authority. No images were found that were created in protected rooms in the sense of a “last personal retreat area”. According to the public prosecutor's office, the distribution of these images also falls under the concept of contemporary history and is therefore permissible.
In addition to the former head of the Identitarian Movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, AfD politicians and individual members of the CDU and the very conservative Values Union took part in the meeting of radical right-wingers on November 25th in Potsdam. Sellner spoke at the meeting in Potsdam about “remigration” - when right-wing extremists use this term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country, even under duress.
Correctiv published, among other things, photos taken from the outside of the meeting in a hotel as well as images that, according to Correctiv, were filmed inside with a clock. Audio recordings of the meeting are not known. dpa