Overview
- Prosecutors cite incitement to hatred over a Landser song allegedly played at Halemba’s 2022 birthday party that targets people of Turkish origin.
- Investigators say he forwarded a mid–four-figure sum from his own account to the Baltics as part of a fraud scheme and received a commission.
- Additional counts include coercion, attempted coercion and property damage tied to pressure on a lawyer and a damaged law office door.
- Halemba asserted his innocence before the session but chose not to address the charges in court at the opening; a co-defendant is also on trial, and the lawyer appears as both counsel and potential victim.
- The case proceeds under youth criminal law because some alleged acts occurred when he was a young adult, and he remains the AfD’s lead candidate for Würzburg’s March municipal elections.