It's November 25, 2023, in a hotel not far away PotsdamIn Germanythe 35-year-old Austrian Martin Sellnera leading figure of New law he was born Identity movement, a far-right organization that was disbanded in France and whose symbols were banned in Austria for inciting hatred, takes the floor. I'm here to listen to him in this closed session EntrepreneurMembers of the German upper class, Neo-Nazis and politicians from Germany's right-wing extremist party Alternatives for Germany discuss a plan for deport up to 2 million people in the country. The meeting, which actually remained secret, was documented in research by the investigative journalist collective Correctiv.
In his speech, Sellner presented an exclusion plan Germany and deported to an unspecified area of North Africa and thus implemented the so-called “return migration”three categories of people: Asylum seekersimmigrants with residency permit And “unassimilated citizens“, i.e. Germans of the second and third generation who are not considered integrated. The expulsion of refugees and illegal immigrants is a programmatic point of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). MPs like Matthias Helferich They obsessively insist on the concept of “remigration” and publish vague propaganda posters on social media Neo-Nazi aestheticgenerated with artificial intelligence and creates summaries about the benefits of mass deportations, come on Savings in the welfare state for the acceptance of Real estate prices due to population decline. But unlike in the past, for the first time representatives of AfD have approved a plan that would also include the following Deprivation of civil rights for millions of German citizens, children of previous waves of immigration.
According to Correctiv, the congresswoman Gerrit Huy would have responded to Sellner's suggestion by explaining that it was necessary to wear one catch Immigrants with German citizenship, offers them a second passport so that it is possible the German revoked. Roland Hartwigright hand of the leader Alice WeidelInstead, he would have expressed his appreciation for Sellner, whose book he would like to read. “We will send foreigners back to their home countries. Millions of times. This is not a secret plan. It's a promise. For more security. For more justice. For preserving our identity. For Germany,” the AfD MP confirmed these intentions René Springer after the investigation was published.
Recently, the fantasies of ethnic purity The views of Germany cultivated by the AfD reveal the darkest face of the party, which has been under the AfD's surveillance since March 2021 Secret services Interior like “Suspected case” From Threat to the democratic order. Some members of the party's youth wing, such as Tomasz FroelichTwelfth on the list of candidates for the European elections, he also called for the expulsion of German citizens from Germany who were against the policies of the AfD.
However, the same dialogue with Sellner clashes with the party's front positions, which theoretically would have included the Identitarian Movement in a list incompatibility. But the list of collaborations with young identities is long and does not embarrass the AfD leaders at all. Last December, for example Maximilian KrahThe leading candidate in the European elections was invited to a conference of Austrian Identitarians Vienna, then officially missed due to illness. Krah, a pro-Russian Anyone who flirts with racist conspiracy theories such as ethnic substitution has ideas similar to Sellner's in every respect. In a manifesto published last summer by a right-wing extremist publisher, he put the number at 25 million, of which 15 million were German citizens, people with a migrant background who were “incompatible” with the idea.ethnostate” German. As a member of the European grouping of Identity and democracythe same as leagueKrah has international connections: he was visited by the President of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontanafrom Trump's former strategist Steve Bannon and in the Young Republicans of New York Trump Club, along with the Northern League member Susanna Ceccardi. Within the Alternative for Germany, Krah belongs to the same faction as the chairman in Thuringia Björn Höcke which, according to a court's decision, can be legally defined as “fascist” because of his statements. This includes the declared intention to forcibly deport millions of people, not only immigrants but also German dissidents, with the mass return migration project.
Correctiv's report comes at a time of great rise for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is currently the second largest party in the polls 23% of the votes. The more the party's negotiating power grows, the more fear spreads throughout the country that the…Plumbing cable“, the taboo of an alliance with the radical right. In this context, it is significant that two members of the hotel also took part in the meeting at the hotel Cdu belonging to the flow Union of valuesin the smell of division and transformation into a party.
The veto of the Christian Democrats is currently the biggest obstacle to Salvini's goal right united with the Europeans. The voices at the secret meeting seem to be aware of the patience required for change: that's what we're talking about long-term strategies to develop the cultural climate in the country and to finance campaigns for this Have an impact on younger generations At Tick tock and to delegitimize, as Trump card in the United States the result of the elections. The revelations caused great outrage in Germany and reignited the debate resolution through AfD law.