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Lower Saxony Lifts AfD Lawmaker’s Immunity as Prosecutors Ready Hate-Speech Indictment

Göttingen prosecutors are preparing an incitement case based on posts on X from August 2024 to February 2025.

Overview

  • The Landtag approved the move with votes from the SPD, CDU and Greens, while the AfD caucus abstained.
  • Charges being prepared include Volksverhetzung as well as injurious insult and insult tied to social-media posts.
  • Prosecutors cite posts that allegedly linked the rainbow flag to paedophile lobby groups and demeaned queer people, including six individuals from a queer network.
  • Multiple investigations are being consolidated into a single case, with an indictment now being drafted in Göttingen.
  • Vanessa Behrendt rejects the allegations as politically motivated and calls the planned indictment a farce.