It was not the arrival, at the end of 2023, of the leader of the New Right he was born in Identity Movement Austrians, Martin Sellnerto awaken in a slice of Alternative for Germany the idea of mass deportations of migrants. An international plan to send back the Syrians in their country the members of the far right had already thought about it in 2018. And to achieve it, as the Zdfhad made contact with the government of Bashar al-Assad and with the Russia.
The revelations on German TV come in weeks of great tension in one Germania where the party is sweeping in the polls and over 1.5 million people have taken to the streets in Berlin to protest against the far right. According to what was published, in 2018 five MPs from AfD they wrote to Assad to request an audience and organize the “orderly repatriation” of Syrian migrants, the same ones welcomed by the government of Angela Merkel three years earlier with his open door policy from the Balkan route. The plan of the extremists was to take place with the support of Russia.
Specifically, in the politicians’ project the migrants should have been brought to Russia to be “trained for some professions that would be needed in Syria.” In October 2018, then-MP Waldemar Herdt he also traveled to Moscow to speak with members of the Duma and with representatives of the Syrian regime, offering in exchange the foundation of a Russian-German organization to report in Moscow’s interests on human rights in the Crimea attached. In addition to this, a collaboration was offered for reduce Western sanctions against Syria and Russia.
These are new discoveries that help to outline the strategies that involve at least part of the German far-right party, which today has been flying in the polls, at least since 2018. Not only, therefore, in recent months, as emerged from a previous investigation by Correctiv in which it was told about a meeting dated November 25, 2023, in a hotel not far from Potsdamwhere Sellner laid out a plan to expel from Germany and deport to an unspecified area of North Africathus implementing the so-called “remigration”, three categories of people: asylum seekersimmigrants with residency permit e “unassimilated citizens”, i.e. second and third generation Germans considered not integrated.
Sellner himself, after the publication of the investigation, came under the attention of the German authorities who, according to daily Newsthey are considering imposing the entry ban in Germany. The Austrian is not the only right-wing extremist to come under the scrutiny of the authorities. Just Tuesday there Constitutional Court German banned the public financing of a small neo-Nazi group heir to the better-known NPD: a provision that some are calling for to also be applied to the AfD. The ruling concerns Hometown (Homeland), name under which the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) which, despite having reached a peak of nostalgic support of 4.3% in 1969, in the last elections had been chosen by only 0.5% of voters.