The AFD faction in the Berlin state parliament has excluded the MP Jessica Bießmann. Occasion is recently emerged photos on which Bießmann poses on a kitchen counter in front of wine bottles with Hitler label. A group spokesman announced the decision without giving any further details. It was agreed to silence.
The deputy had posted the photos according to their own information about ten years ago in a social network, recently they reappeared by a Twitter user. Bießmann regretted the existence of the photos. They were created in the apartment of a former friend. She did not notice the wine bottles in the background, says Bießmann.
Wine bottles with Hitler's counterfeit and Nazi slogans on the label are freely traded in Italy and shipped from there to Germany. In this country, the commercial trade of such products is prohibited as well as the spreading and public use of marks of a Nazi organization.
In mid-October, the AFD state board had already unanimously launched a party exclusion case against Bießmann. AfD party and faction leader Georg Pazderski called the questionable photos unacceptable. Bießmann had thus done damage to the party and the faction. The group now has 22 members.