Overview

• On the opening day of the Women’s European Championship, AfD MP Daniel Wald used the racist slur “N-word” in a comment on an old photo of the German women’s national team and subsequently deleted both the post and his X account
• Eva von Angern, leader of the Die Linke faction in the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament, lodged a criminal complaint accusing Wald of violating Germany’s strict hate-speech laws
• Olaf Meister, parliamentary manager for the Greens in Saxony-Anhalt, condemned the remark as a manifestation of a dehumanizing worldview that appears tolerated within the AfD
• A spokesperson for the AfD-Fraktion in Saxony-Anhalt said the incident was discussed internally and is now considered closed following the deletion of the post
• The pending legal proceedings have intensified scrutiny of political responsibility and enforcement of hate-speech legislation in Germany