The Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) has prevailed in a lawsuit before the Berlin district court against the AfD. After a judgment of the civil chamber 27 of the court of 5 July, which is the SPIEGEL, the party is obliged to a correction on its homepage.
The Berlin AfD leader Georg Pazderski, also a member of the federal executive committee of his party, had in November 2016 on the AfD homepage and then claimed in a press release, the federal government or the Ministry of Environment had co-financed the election campaign of US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. By cease and desist, the BMU had already in December 2016, a deletion of this message obtained, now the AfD must correct them.
"Now comes out that the Ministry of the Environment has put several million taxpayer money into the Clinton campaign," Pazderski had stated at the time. "The Chamber is convinced that this statement of fact is untrue," it says in the verdict.
The Regional Court demands the following statement for the correction: "The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety did not make any payments in support of the election campaign of Hillary Clinton as US presidential candidate, but rather a project of the Hillary Clinton Foundation just before the election campaign in Africa, where the funds were spent on projects only. "
District court speaks of "serious reproach"
According to the 21-page judgment, the allegation is a "serious allegation" capable of "jeopardizing confidence in the work of the Ministry and its functioning".
The defendants - ie the Berlin AFD country chief Pazderski as well as the federal party - each have to bear the costs of the legal dispute. A vocation is possible.