Overview
- After the Luckenwalde cancellation, Martin Sellner held a Thursday evening lecture in Vetschau, with AfD state MP Lena Kotré attending as a guest.
- Alice Weidel, Tino Chrupalla, and René Springer had pressed to halt the original plan, while Brandenburg faction leader Hans-Christoph Berndt defended meeting Sellner and criticized the lack of internal consultation.
- During the talk, Sellner rejected the term deportation and portrayed his approach as lawful assimilation pressure with incentives for return.
- Police prepared for a deployment in the Spreewald town, and the local alliance Vetschau für alle declared him unwelcome and organized a counter-protest.
- Germany’s domestic intelligence classifies the Identitarian Movement as right-wing extremist, the Brandenburg AfD is under the same label in the state, and the Federal Administrative Court found Sellner’s ‘remigration’ concept violates human dignity.