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A high-profile member of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party appeared in court again on Monday over his repeated use of a prohibited slogan from the Nazi era at a public event.
Prosecutors allege that Björn Höcke was testing the boundaries when he uttered the first two words of the slogan and goaded the crowd to complete it.
What happened in court?
Prosecutor Benedikt Bernzen told a regional court in the city of Halle that Höcke had used the slogan "Everything for Germany," or incited others to do so, at an AfD event in Gera, in the neighboring state of Thuringia last December.
Höcke allegedly spoke the first two words of the Nazi-era slogan and encouraged the audience to shout the third.
The public prosecutor's office is convinced that both the AfD politician and the audience knew that it was a forbidden slogan of the Nazi movement. At the time, proceedings against Höcke were already pending for a similar incident in Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt.
Höcke is the AfD chairman for the central state of Thuringia and also the regional parliamentary group leader.
Prosecutors allege that Björn Höcke was testing the boundaries when he uttered the first two words of the slogan and goaded the crowd to complete it.
What happened in court?
Prosecutor Benedikt Bernzen told a regional court in the city of Halle that Höcke had used the slogan "Everything for Germany," or incited others to do so, at an AfD event in Gera, in the neighboring state of Thuringia last December.
Höcke allegedly spoke the first two words of the Nazi-era slogan and encouraged the audience to shout the third.
The public prosecutor's office is convinced that both the AfD politician and the audience knew that it was a forbidden slogan of the Nazi movement. At the time, proceedings against Höcke were already pending for a similar incident in Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt.
Höcke is the AfD chairman for the central state of Thuringia and also the regional parliamentary group leader.
DW
