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AfD politician Gerrit Huy: “I’m particularly interested in gaining access to any audio and video recordings.”
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AfD member of the Bundestag Gerrit Huy has filed a criminal complaint because of the images and possible audio recordings of a meeting of radical right-wingers in Potsdam. The Potsdam public prosecutor's office confirmed this to the dpa news agency on Tuesday. An initial suspicion is now being examined, said a spokeswoman. These are allegations under Sections 201 and 201a of the Criminal Code - the ban on secret sound and image recordings in non-public or specially protected spaces - as well as under the Art Copyright Act.
Huy himself told the dpa when asked: “I filed a complaint about violation of personal rights about three weeks ago. I am particularly interested in gaining access to any sound and image recordings. If the case were positive, I would sue for the release of these recordings, in particular in order to then make the audio recordings public."
The background is a report by the media company “Correctiv” about a meeting of radical right-wingers on November 25th in Potsdam, in which Huy and other AfD politicians as well as individual members of the CDU and the “Values Union” took part. The former head of the “Identitarian Movement” in Austria, Martin Sellner, confirmed that he spoke about “remigration” at the meeting in Potsdam. When right-wing extremists use this term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country - even under duress and even if they have a German passport.
"Correctiv" had published, among other things, photos taken from the outside of the meeting in a hotel as well as images that, according to "Correctiv", were filmed inside with a clock. Huy can also be seen. Audio recordings of the meeting are not known. According to the public prosecutor's office, the complaint is directed against 15 named people.
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