Merz’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ comments trigger defamation complaint from AfD
The party says Merz’s remarks were a defamatory insult as the Bundestag lifted his immunity, deepening a dispute over migration language.
- Germany's AfD party filed a criminal complaint against Chancellor Friedrich Merz for calling the party's 'remigration' slogan a form of 'ethnic cleansing' during a Bundestag debate.
- AfD parliamentary whip Stephan Brandner described Merz's remarks as defamatory and criminally relevant, rejecting implications of expulsions and killings.
- Merz argued that AfD-style migration crackdowns would harm the economy, noting many skilled trades depend on workers with migration backgrounds, and that Germany still needs to deport some people without permanent stay rights.
- The AfD defines 'remigration' as deporting foreign criminals and illegal migrants, while Germany's intelligence agency links it to ethnically targeted expulsions and monitors parts of the AfD as right-wing extremist.
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Initiative arises only two days after a particularly tough confrontation in the Bundestag, the German parliament, between Merz and the co-president of AfD, Alice Weidel
The Alternative Party for Germany (AfD) announced that it filed a complaint against Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who qualified as "ethnic cleansing" the concept of "remigration" used by the extreme...
The parliamentary faction of the Bundestag "Alternative for Germany" calls for the criminal prosecution of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the leader of the HDZ/CSS ruling bloc, who is no longer only losing popularity among the Germans in the polls, but is also a devastating loser of the AdG in the local elections.
Germany's far-right opposition party Alternative for Germany (AfD) announced late Thursday that it would seek criminal defamation charges against Chancellor Friedrich Merz after he accused the political force of promoting ethnic cleansing.
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