L’estrema destra tedesca AfD accusata di raccogliere informazioni per il Cremlino

Shocked Pikachu!

> **Alternative for Germany’s opponents accuse the party of attempting to disclose sensitive information on arms supply routes and drone defenses.**
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> BERLIN — Far-right German politician Ringo Mühlmann has taken a noteworthy interest in exposing information his political opponents say could be of great interest to Russian intelligence.
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> Using the rights afforded to him as a lawmaker for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the parliament of the eastern German state of Thuringia — where the AfD is the strongest party — Mühlmann has repeatedly asked the regional government to disclose intricate details on subjects such as local drone defenses and Western arms transports to Ukraine.
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> “What information does the state government have about the extent of military transit transports through Thuringia since 2022 (broken down by year, type of transport [road, rail], number of transits, and known stops)?” Mühlmann asked in writing in September.
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> One day in June, Mühlmann — who denies he is doing Russia’s bidding — filed eight inquiries related to drones and the drone defense capabilities of the region’s police, who are responsible for detecting and fending off drones deemed a spy threat.
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> “What technical systems for drone defense are known to the Thuringian police (e.g., jammers, net launchers, electromagnetic pulse devices), and to what extent have these been tested for their usability in law enforcement?” Mühlmann asked.
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> Such questions from AfD lawmakers on the state and federal parliaments have led German centrists to accuse the far-right party’s lawmakers of using their seats to try to expose sensitive information that Moscow could use in its war on Ukraine and to help carry out its so-called “hybrid war” against Europe.
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> “One cannot help but get the impression that the AfD is working through a list of tasks assigned to it by the Kremlin with its inquiries,” Thuringian Interior Minister Georg Maier, a member of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), told German newspaper Handelsblatt.
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> “What struck me was an incredible interest in critical infrastructure and the security authorities here in Thuringia, especially how they deal with hybrid threats,” Maier subsequently told POLITICO. “Suddenly, geopolitical issues are playing a role in their questions, while we in the Thuringian state parliament are not responsible for foreign policy or defense policy.”
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> **‘Perfidious’ insinuations**
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> AfD leaders frequently take positions favorable to the Kremlin, favoring a renewal of economic ties and gas imports and a cease of weapons aid for Ukraine. Their political opponents, however, have frequently accused them of acting not from conviction alone — but at the behest of Moscow. Greens lawmaker Irene Mihalic, for instance, last month called the party Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “trojan horse” in Germany.
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> AfD politicians deny allegations they are using their rising parliamentary power both nationally and in Germany’s states to try to pass on sensitive information to the Kremlin.
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> Tino Chrupalla, one of the AfD’s national leaders, strongly pushed back against the allegations his party is attempting to reveal arms supply routes to benefit the Kremlin.
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> “Citizens have legitimate fears about what they see and experience on the highways every evening,” he said in a talk show last month when asked about Mühlmann’s inquiries. “These are all legitimate questions from a member of parliament who is concerned and who takes the concerns and needs of citizens seriously. You are making insinuations, which is quite perfidious; you are accusing us of things that you can never prove.”
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> Mühlmann, a former police officer, speaking to POLITICO, denied that he’s following an assignment list “in the direction of Russia.”
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> Government ministers, while obligated to answer each parliamentary inquiry, are not obliged to reveal sensitive or classified information that could endanger national security, Mühlmann also argued.
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> “It is not up to me to limit my questions, but up to the minister to provide the answers,” he said. “If at some point such an answer poses a danger or leads to espionage, then the espionage is not my fault, but the minister’s, because he has disclosed information that he should not have disclosed.”

Same story across Europe – all the ‘true patriots’ are working with russia to abolish democracy, dissolve the EU and NATO, and establish their own private Belarus-like fiefs in their respective countries, under the protection of Putin’s FSB.

Can’t they be prosecuted for treason?

Disgusting traitors.

Sounds like a traitor to me..

It is another great deed of Captain Obvious!

No kidding… This is the tragedy were facing in the EU right now. The extreme right is Russia’s paid trojan horse while the extreme left are its useful idiots!!!

That’s incredible. It’s really incredible that every silly patridiots’ party is linked with Russia. And they are still rising all around Europe.

Anyone surprised by this hasn’t been paying any attention for the last decade.

We already know that almost every single far-right party in Europe has been backed by the Kremlin. This is no longer a suggestion, it’s not a suspicion, it’s not an opinion that can be argued.

It’s verifiable fact, proven over and over and over again.

Farage is owned by Putin – Brexit was backed by Russia to reduce the power of the European Union.

Trump is owned by Putin – there is a gargantuan mountain of evidence proving this, and it would take a month to list the thousands of pieces of publicly known evidence showing this to be the case.

Marine Le Pen is owned by Putin – she was literally financially backed by Russia and in exchange for supporting the illegal annexation of Crimea and promising to back Putin against European values.

Several Republican politicians travelled to Moscow in 2018 to spend INDEPENDENCE DAY in photo ops.

If anyone still doesn’t understand what has been happening for the last ten years, you need 24/7 dedicated nursing care.

You don’t say??? Who could’ve seen this coming.

Lol.All far-right european parties getting paid by Putin, hope it’s obvious now, although we are a little late realising this.Their voters have been brainwashed by russian troll farms for more than a decade now, just like MAGA in the US.I used to be called cospiracy theorist before, now there is more and more evidence surfaces that this is not a theory.Western democracies got pretty much fcked by their own creation, social media, and this was all orchestrated by Russia/China to some extent.

Yeah, no shit.
They are taking Russian and billionaires money, always praising Putin, Russia and Russian gas/oil as well as the MAGA shit show.

And now they are asking suspiciously specific questions with relevance to national security in local parliaments without any policies following after. And some of them meet up with Russian officials.

So nice to see how this forum is constantly talking sh*t about politico, how it cannot be trusted etc. But when they come up with something that fits into *your* narrative, suddenly none of this matters 😀

Oh no, who could have guessed? Almost everyone who doesn’t vote for them.

But don’t you worry! They‘ll change into their „Opferrolle“ modus again. Unfortunatelly that seems to work because they still gain popularity…

I hope there’s proportionality in the punishment.

😦😦/s

accused? I thought that’s their whole schtick