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There are many right-wing extremists in the Bundestag because of the AfD.
According to research by Bayerischer Rundfunk, the AfD parliamentary group and its employees employ more than 100 people who are active in organizations that are classified as right-wing extremist by German constitutional protection offices.
Internal AfD employee lists were evaluated.
Among the employees there are several neo-Nazis who took part in marches in Chemnitz, Dresden and Zwickau, ideologues from the “New Right” and activists from the right-wing extremist “Identitarian Movement”.
These also include organizers of lateral thinker demonstrations, Pegida events and members of right-wing prepper groups.
The parliamentary group did not want to comment on the allegations at the BR's request - for "reasons of data protection and the protection of personal rights."
In addition, the classification of a constitutional protection office is "basically a pure measure of this respective authority" which does not have any "and certainly not 'automatic' legal effects" attached to it.
Astonishing: An AfD MP is said to have hired an employee whom the AfD itself had excluded.
The name Frank Pasemann, who was a member of parliament in the previous legislative period and was thrown out of the parliamentary group, is said to be on a door sign in a Bundestag building.
Consequences demanded
According to the door sign, he works for MP Jürgen Pohl.
Pasemann and Pohl did not comment when asked, as BR reports.
Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Greens) called for consequences.
The right-wing extremists in parliament are a danger.
One must consider whether enemies of the constitution who work in the Bundestag should continue to be paid with tax money.
»We should change that.
We can’t just let this happen.”
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