The public prosecutor’s office in Halle, Germany, has brought another charge against the Thuringian AfD parliamentary group leader Björn Höcke. The public prosecutor’s office announced yesterday that he was charged with using the license plates of a former National Socialist organization.
Höcke is said to have used the forbidden slogan of the Sturmabteilung (SA) of the NSDAP, “Everything for Germany!” used again at an AfD event in Gera in December. The SA was the paramilitary fighting organization of the NSDAP.
As a speaker, Höcke is said to have said the first part of the slogan “Everything for” himself and used gestures to encourage the audience to shout “Germany”. “The accused has not yet come forward with the matter,” it said.
The public prosecutor’s office has requested that the proceedings be combined for a joint trial with proceedings already pending at the Halle Regional Court. Because he is said to have used the saying in a speech in Merseburg in Saxony-Anhalt at the end of May 2021, the Halle public prosecutor’s office brought charges. From mid-April, Höcke will have to answer before the regional court in Halle. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies Höcke as a right-wing extremist.
