Overview

• Alice Weidel has lodged roughly 200 criminal complaints under Paragraph 188, far exceeding her office’s public estimate.
• Other AfD figures, including Stephan Brandner, have initiated large numbers of similar filings under the insult statute.
• Lawyers in Bremen and Berlin say Weidel accounts for about 90 percent of the party’s mass complaints against online critics.
• Many prosecutions stem from satirical or insulting social-media posts, notably Christian Ehring’s “Nazischlampe” slur.
• Critics contend the AfD weaponizes the strengthened post-2019 insult law to shape a political victim narrative.