Federal AfD demands Halemba's expulsion from the party
Incitement of the people and the use of symbols of anti-constitutional organizations: The accusations against the Bavarian AfD member of state parliament Halemba are serious. The 22-year-old denies them. Nevertheless, the federal party leadership is now calling for his expulsion.
The AfD party leadership is distancing itself from its Bavarian state parliament member Daniel Halemba. The 22-year-old is accused of incitement of the people, among other things. According to a party spokesperson, the federal executive committee has asked the Bavarian AfD state executive committee to initiate expulsion proceedings against Halemba.
The party executive discussed the Halemba case in Berlin on Monday evening. The public prosecutor's office in Würzburg is investigating the MP for incitement of the people and the use of symbols of anti-constitutional organizations. The 22-year-old student, who last lived in Würzburg, rejects the accusations.
The state executive of the AfD in Bavaria initially did not wish to comment on the request from Berlin. When asked, its chairman Stephan Protschka merely stated that the issue was on the agenda for the state executive committee meeting on Thursday.
Office for the Protection of the Constitution observes fraternity
Last week, it became known that the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution has been monitoring the Teutonia Prag fraternity in Würzburg, of which Halemba is a member, since the beginning of December. This also applies to the AfD as a whole party in Bavaria.
According to the public prosecutor's office in Würzburg, a guest book was confiscated from the fraternity's house during a raid in September. It contained the entry "Sieg Heil", signed with Halemba's name. In the room occupied by the 22-year-old, a printout of an SS order issued by SS chief Heinrich Himmler in October 1939 with a so-called double sigrune was discovered.
"The activitas of the Teutonia Prag fraternity in Würzburg is an object of observation by the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution," the Office for the Protection of the Constitution announced. There are sufficiently strong indications that the activities of the fraternity are directed against the free democratic basic order, it said.
The fraternity had stored propaganda material from the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement on its premises. In doing so, it had emphatically supported the right-wing extremist efforts of this movement. In addition, right-wing extremist music had been played in the fraternity house.
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The federal AfD is pressing for the expulsion of Daniel Halemba, a Bavarian state parliament member, due to allegations of incitement to hatred and association with symbols of anti-constitutional organizations. Following the accusations against Halemba, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Bavaria has been monitoring the Teutonia Prag fraternity, of which Halemba is a member, as well as the AfD party in Bavaria, due to indications of activities against the free democratic basic order.
Source: www.ntv.de
