German far-right AfD lawmaker smeared with faeces

Admin I Saturday, August 27, 2023

BERLIN – A senior member of the far-right Alternative for Germany party was smeared with faeces during a public engagement on Friday evening.

A senior member of the far-right Alternative for Germany party was smeared with faeces during a public engagement on Friday evening.

Beatrix von Storch, the deputy leader of the party that is riding high on an anti-immigration and anti-green agenda, was attacked in an event hall in the western town of Daun.

Von Storch told dpa that the man asked her for a photo and she was ready to oblige. But he smeared her with excrement instead.

“It was really disgusting,” von Storch said.

The man was overpowered by the police and is now under investigation. Von Storch said she filed a complaint.

There had been a peaceful demonstration outside the AfD event with about 100 participants, police said.

The AfD, a populist party formed in 2013 on a eurosceptic platform, has shifted farther and farther to the right over the years. It has soared in the polls on an agenda critical of immigration, Islam and climate groups.