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Germany: Court fines AfD politician Höcke over Nazi slogan
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https://www.dw.com/en/germany-court-fines-afd-politician-h%C3%B6cke-over-nazi-slogan/a-69072163
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
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A regional court in the eastern German city of Halle ordered on Tuesday far-right politician Björn Höcke to pay 100 fines at a daily rate of €130 each for using a banned Nazi slogan.
Höcke, the leader of the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) in the eastern state of Thuringia, was accused of knowingly using the slogan of the Sturmabteilung (SA), or Storm Troopers.
Höcke, 52, is the leading candidate of the Thuringian AfD for the state elections at the beginning of September.
Prosecutor Benedikt Bernzen argued in closing arguments that Höcke had used Nazi vocabulary “strategically and systematically” in the past.
The SA played a major role when Nazis came to power in 1933, terrorizing, killing, torturing and intimidating mainly communists and Jews.
On Monday, a regional court upheld in a separate case the designation of the AfD as a “suspected” extremist organization.
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