Fierce Debate in German Parliament: Merz Accuses AfD of Wanting Ethnic Cleansing
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The Federal Chancellor had accused the far-right party of planning "ethnic cleansing". Stephan Brandner, Managing Director of the AfD, wants to take legal action against it.
The Bundestag faction of the AfD apparently filed a complaint against the Federal Chancellor for slander. Friedrich Merz had described the concept of "remigration" as "ethnic cleansing".
Merz has described the AfD concept of "remigration" in the Bundestag as "ethnic cleansing by skin colour and origin." The AfD Group has now filed a criminal complaint – the statement is "relevant to criminal law."
After her election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, Merz accused the AfD of pursuing plans "for ethnic cleansing according to origin and skin colour". The Bundestag faction is now talking about "defamatory insults".
Pressured German Chancellor refers to one of the darkest chapters in German history after state elections, where the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party won a landslide victory.
Berlin, September 10, 2026. The AfD parliamentary group filed a criminal complaint against Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz for slanderous insult. The reason is the speech of the Federal Chancellor during the budget consultations in the German Bundestag on Wednesday, in which he had accused the AfD faction of propagating "remigration", which "nothing else" is "as an ethnic cleansing according to skin colour and origin". The [...] Der Beitrag Af…
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