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The "Reichsbürger" are a tiny group of completely irrelevant nutcases, and according to the FAZ Malsack-Winkemann is no longer in the AfD: https://www.faz.net/
by kalrnh 2y ago
The "Reichsbürger" are a tiny group of completely irrelevant nutcases, and according to the FAZ Malsack-Winkemann is no longer in the AfD:
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/ex-afd-abgeordnete-malsack-winkemann-aus-richterdienst-entfernt-18752515.html https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/ex-afd-abgeordnet...
Connections to the AfD exist, because extreme right people will always choose the most right wing viable party (NPD or successor is too small) as their home. The question is the percentage of these people and if all of them are genuine or some of them are planted.
I agree with the CDU here that the purported issue is not clear enough. It is a shame that we do not have the relatively normal political era of Schmidt, Kohl and Genscher, but that's the fault of the CDU/SPD.
- aguaviva 2y agoTiny? In April 2018, Germany's domestic intelligence service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), estimated that Reichsbürger movement membership had grown by 80% over the previous two years, more than estimated earlier, with a total of 18,000 adherents, of whom 950 were categorized as right-wing extremists. [Wikipedia] Apart from numbers -- given that their ranks include former KSK members, they've had some success infiltrating local police departments, and are part of a much broader cloth of revisionist/antidemocratic movements; on top of the events of December 2022 -- the description of "completely irrelevant" is weirdly hyperbolic. For context: the RAF probably had no more than 100 members at any point, but no one would think to call them "irrelevant".