The Berlin public prosecutor’s office filed a complaint against the far-right party MP Alternative for Germany (AfD) Matthias Moosdorf for “using symbols of unconstitutional organizations” by allegedly giving the Nazi salute in the German parliament, the Bundestag, during a … session in June 2023.
The 60-year-old defendant will have to appear before the Tiergarten district court, since the Bundestag lifting of parliamentary immunity of the MP in October this year, reads a statement published by the public prosecutor’s office in the German capital on its website.
According to the organization, he greeted a man in this way – prohibited by German law – party partner in the cloakroom at the entrance to the building which houses the headquarters of the German Parliament, knowing that this form of greeting “would be perceptible by other people”.
The Saxon politician has so far denied the accusations against him, going so far as to describe them as “absurd”. In statements to the DPA news agency, the dossier is based on the statements of a single person, a former social democratic MP.
In mid-September, Moosdorf, former AfD foreign policy spokesperson in the Bundestag, was ordered to pay an internal fine of 2,000 euros after making an unauthorized trip to Russia.
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