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AfD Alexander Gauland is under investigation for incitement to violence and Alice Weidel accused of sending an email containing anti-democratic and racist statements.Picture credit: AfD 

Alexander Gauland has become the subject of an investigation because he allegedly said the current SPD MP and state minister for migration Aydan Özoguz should be “dumped off” in Turkey.

Gauland had said at an election rally in Eichsfeld in Thuringia, under the applause of participants:

“Invite her to Eichsfeld and tell her then, what specific German culture is. She will never come back here, and we will then be able, thank God, to dump her off in Turkey.”

Özoguz had stated in a contribution to the “Tagesspiegel” in May that “a specific German culture is, beyond the language, simply not identifiable. (…) Globalisation and the pluralism of ways of life lead to a further diversification.”

Candidates of SPD, CDU and the current government condemned his statements on social media. The expression “jemanden entsorgen” is problematic because it can also mean “dispose of someone.” The CDU general secretary Peter Tauber called it “racism”, SPD lead candidate called the statement “disgusting”, while the Green MP Özcan Mutlu referred to Germany’s Nazi past: “in this country, his ideological comrades have already “dumped” people.”

A former presiding judge at the federal court of justice (Bundesgerichsthof) Thomas Fischer reported Gauland to the police for incitement to violence (Volksverhetzung), Der Spiegel reported on 10 September. He disputed that the comments were spontaneous because Gauland is a lawyer and that his statements in speeches changed according to propaganda needs.

Disputed email by Weidel

Meanwhile, Alice Weidel, the other lead candidate of the AfD, is criticised for allegedly sending an email in 2013 containing racist remarks and anti-democratic comments. However, the AfD denies that she is the author.

The email, sent to a friend, states:

“the reason why we are being submerged by these people who are foreign to our culture, such as Arabs, Sinti and Roma, is the systematic destruction of civil society as a possible counterweight to the enemies of the constitution, by whom we are governed.”

Weidel was not yet an AfD member in 2013, but started to get involved in its predecessor “alternative vote 2013.”

Die Welt am Sonntag, who received the email, has written statements that the email is real and written by Weidel.

The email also contains insults against the federal government:

“These pigs are nothing else than puppets of the winners of WW2 and have the task to keep the German people small by inducing molecular civil wars in the big towns through foreign infiltration (“Ueberfremdung”).”

The email alleges that the judicial authorities are corrupt through and through and that Germany is not a sovereign state:

“That Germany is not sovereign should be made clear through the disgusting fatalism in daily politics, for example our expropriation through the Euro bailouts, corrupt judiciary (German federal constitutional court).”

The AfD is on course to enter the Bundestag, polling between 8 and 11 per cent.

Source: http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/